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ChatGPT Mystery: Deceased OpenAI Whistleblower Had Been Approached to Testify Against Company
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer who raised concerns about the company’s AI training practices potentially violating copyright law, was reportedly being considered as a key witness in lawsuits against OpenAI before he was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26.
The Guardian reports that Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former engineer at OpenAI, died on November 26, 2024 in what San Francisco police said appeared to be a suicide. Prior to his death, Balaji had been identified by lawyers as a potential star witness who likely had unique and relevant documents that could support allegations of copyright infringement against the AI company.
During his nearly four years at OpenAI before resigning in August 2024, Balaji played an essential role in developing some of the company’s key products, including WebGPT which paved the way for ChatGPT. Most recently, he had been organizing the massive datasets of online writings and media used to train GPT-4, OpenAI’s flagship large language model.
It was this work that led Balaji to publicly question in October 2024 whether OpenAI’s practices of training its AI systems on people’s data and then competing with them in the marketplace may be illegal copyright infringement. He told the Associated Press he would “try to testify” in the strongest copyright cases against the company, including one brought by the New York Times in 2023.
While acknowledging his was an unpopular opinion within the AI research community, Balaji felt pulling data from the internet to train AI without permission would have to change, telling AP “they will have to change and it’s a matter of time.” He had grown increasingly disillusioned with OpenAI, especially after internal turmoil in 2023 and the departures of key leaders.
Balaji resigned from OpenAI on the same day in August 2024 as his mentor John Schulman. With Balaji no longer available to testify, it’s unclear what impact his potential testimony could have had on the pending lawsuits accusing OpenAI of copyright violations. Lawyers involved in the cases declined to comment on what role Balaji might have played and how his death affects their litigation strategies.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/26/chatgpt-mystery-deceased-openai-whistleblower-had-been-approached-to-testify-against-company/
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Bird flu ‘may be mutating to become more transmissible to humans’
Scientists believe virus, which has spread across bird and cattle farms in the US, could jump more easily to people in future
A Louisiana woman with the first severe case of bird flu in the US had a mutated form of the disease that may make it more infectious to humans.
Scientists believe the virus – which has spread across bird and cattle farms in the US and caused more than 60 mild human infections – could jump more easily to people in future.
California has declared a state of emergency over the virus, which has been found in more than 600 dairy farms there in the last four months.
The woman from Louisiana needed hospital treatment for the disease. Another severe bird flu case was reported in a teenager in British Columbia, Canada.
A genetic analysis of the woman’s disease found that the bird flu virus – known officially as H5N1 – had mutated inside her body. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the mutations may allow the virus to better bind to receptors in the upper airways of humans.
The Louisiana patient was in a critical condition with severe respiratory symptoms after coming in contact with sick and dead birds. The patient, who has not been identified, is older than 65 and has underlying medical problems, officials said earlier this month.
The CDC said there has been no known transmission of the virus from the Louisiana patient to anyone else. It said its findings about the mutations were “concerning”, but the risk to the general public from the outbreak “has not changed and remains low”.
The outbreak on dairy farms has also prompted fresh warnings over the consumption of raw milk, where the virus has been found in samples on sale to the public.
There is no evidence H5N1 has been transmitted to humans via the milk, although public health officials advise consumers not to drink it.
Unpasteurised “raw” milk is favoured by Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s choice as health secretary, who recently asked a California producer of the milk to apply for a job as an adviser to the federal government.
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, imposed a state of emergency over bird flu on Dec 18, noting that it had been found in dairy herds in 16 states.
An animal sanctuary in Shelton, Washington state, has also been placed under quarantine after the outbreak killed 20 big cats at the facility over the past month. The virus has claimed more than half its animals, including four cougars and a Bengal tiger, since late November.
Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota infectious disease researcher, warned that bird flu could become a major pandemic similar to coronavirus.
“There will be additional influenza pandemics and they could be much worse than we saw with Covid,” he told the Associated Press. “We know that the pandemic clock is ticking. We just don’t know what time it is.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/12/27/bird-flu-mutating-contagion-pandemic-lousiana/
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