OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.
Archive link: https://archive.is/xBuPg
So when does the all out manhunt with every possible available resource deployed to find the killer begin?
Whistleblowers are automatically overcome with grief at disappointing the high and mighty Job Creators and shoot themselves in the back of the head twice in despair.
Oh, I see how it is. They keep killing and killing, but we hit ONE CEO and shit hits the fan. Alright, then.
Don't forget your place.
Two bullets back of the head?
A Boeing suicide...
You know we all love a good laugh about russians falling out from a window but when we will start asking questions why whistle blowers "dying" is a normal occurrence in the US.
A Boeing suicide...
A crass nickname for the CIA Prize for Journalism if I ever saw one.
Is it not normal?
Its crazy how fast you die once you blow that whistle. All out class war on one side.
suicide
Nothing to see here bois. Always remember that US is a free country that is out of authoritarian hands. Nothing to see.
In some countries some people prefer to suicide themselves alone in their rooms without warning. In other countries, they prefer to suicide themselves by shooting themselves multiple times in the back and/or throwing themselves off of multiple storey buildings. Who can say? It's not like countries led by psychopaths who put profit margins above society, including people's lives, would ever kill people to defend their bottom line.
There's two barriers to justice in today's world: The first one is having enough money to hire lawyers. The second one is having enough money to hire bodyguards.
So many whistleblowers ending up dead. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Hundreds of coincidences.
Many such cases.
All whistleblowers from Boeing and now this. What a bs.
Can't we try and fund our own armed compounds for whistleblowers?
Especially the ones that benefit working class cause like this guy - because AI stealing our data is a threat to all of us.
It's so bad because people will happily cheer it on. But eventually it will just be used to go after political opponents and just classes of people that whoever is in charge doesn't like. We have so, so many dumb and sometimes even conflicting crimes on the books that the average American unwittingly breaks a few federal laws and usually a myriad of state laws (most being outdated or blue book laws) every week. For some people near state borders it can be everyday.
They are all committing suicide just like in Russia… crazy…I guess both our countries need to work on our mental health.
Einzelfälle as we say in german.
You gotta set up a dead man's switch (not literal give the evidence to a lawyer or do a deposition or whatever). Do that before you blow the whistle and announce that at the same time.
Bill Burr has this take that corporations are the mobsters of yore, they just kneecap or whack people in different ways because the law is on their side now. Until it’s not.
It's all about probabilities.
Truth is proof, and the article contains no details to establish this absolutely. So, we are left with supposition.
This wasn't an isolated man with nothing to live for - while his career in AI was over, he'd left it to pursue a moral agenda. Suicide is not likely until AFTER he testifies and discharged this.
The fact he supposedly had documents and a testimony that could heavily harm a company is enough to make it very likely his death was the cost of doing business - why pay a billion in a court case when you can pay a million for a professional hit?
On the balance of probabilities, it looks more likely to be like foul play. As they say, Epstein didn't kill himself.
Exposing billionaires is more fatal than cancer.
sam altman & his goons, check.
Sakujyo
https://suchir.net/fair_use.html
Rest in peace. He was 26.
The inputs of the model are full copies of copyrighted data, so the “amount used” is the entirety of the copyrighted work.
If you want to apply current copyright law to the inner working of artificial networks, you run into the problem that it doesn't work on humans either.
A human remembering copyrighted works, be it memorization or regular memory, similarly is creating a copy of that copyighted work in their brain somewhere.
There is no law criminalizing the knowledge or inspiration a human obtains from consuming media they did not have the rights to consume. (In many places it isn't even illegal to aquire and consume media you don't have rights to, only to provide it to others without those rights)
Criminalizing knowledge, or brains containing knowledge, can't possibly be a good idea, and I think neural nets are too close to the function of the brain to apply current regulation to one but not the other. You would at minimum need laws explicitly specifying to only apply to digital neural nets or something similar, and it apears this page is trying to work in existing regulation. (If we do create law only applying to digital neural nets, and we ever create intelligent enough ai it could deservedly be called a person, then I'm sure that ai wouldn't be greatly happy about weird discriminatory regulation applying to only its brain but not that of all the other people on this planet.)
A neural net is working too similarly to the human brain to call the neural net a copy but the human brain "learning, memorization, inspiration". If you wanna avoid criminalizing thoughts, I don't see a way to make the arguments this website makes.
Look, I'm not saying it was Skynet, but I'm also not saying it wasn't.
So you're saying he got... terminated?
beeb-boob
So? He was Poor! Let me know when a RICH PERSON dies and THEN I'll care!
Lemme see, suicide from two gunshots to the back of the head?
Conservative conspiracy theories: "HA! What idiots!"
Lemmy conspiracy theories: "HA! Told ya!"
Maybe ask some fucking questions?!
after receiving a call asking officers to check on his well-being
Who called and why? This seems extraordinarily important.
“currently, no evidence of foul play.”
OK. Let's see what comes out.
The MO here seems to be pressuring people in to suicide. It's been done. So...? What do we know along those lines?
SWAT doesn't need to know who called in order to go full Rambo on random citizens. Rich people pull the strings. They don't believe in accountability.
They do not send in SWAT for wellness checks
In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions.
Unless stuff starts happening to those people, or there is some detail I missed in the article, it is much more plausible that this was suicide than some corporate hit, let alone one carried out using police violence? Is that what you were implying?
That's a vector of attack and it has been exploited by randos.
I think if it wasn't for that, we wouldn't know that it can be that easy to call in swat someone, these people do no diligence, just go in hot.
This is way to easy to socially engineer, government must know this and yet it still happens.
they were only 26. fuck sakes.
I know this is off topic and not really that important but i can never stop myself from pointing this out about a commonly misused phrase.
Its not fuck sakes, because a fuck doesn't sake
Its fuck's sake, because the sake belongs to the fuck.
My mid 20s were when I hit a major mental breaking point. If I hadn't had a good support network of friends close to me and family I could turn to...
26 is old enough to feel like you've lost everything and that nothing will ever be good again. He left a good career for his morals and lost all hope of employment from it.
Yeah, but they were not even 30 yet....dammit these corps.
It wasn't me but someone here called it
I was talking to my cousin (journalist) a while ago and she told me how she was supposed to interview a whistleblower for Anaheim PD. I snarkily commented something like, "yeah but let me guess he shot himself twice in the back of the head" and she alarmingly said "...yeah, how did you know?"
I'm surprised that she would be surprised by that, it's like the most obvious thing ever lol
All just a series of unfortunate coincidences.
Found Daniel Handler’s account.
I wonder why the...I mean he couldn't find an open window
Wrong country. Drugs are easy to get here, for example, especially in silicon valley. Not to mention the easiest cause of being suicided, high caliber lead poisoning.
That said, it's always possible (though less likely) that he couldn't live with himself, having helped create the current worst technology around.
Sometimes is subtle, sometimes it's not.
Why? I would think that pills are far easier. Falling out of a window has the potential to just be in pain until you go.
Idk everyone is doing the "he was killed but
The medical examiner’s office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”
Isn't it possible the guy was troubled and just actually killed himself?
Can't see the forest for the trees.
The problem isn't that this guy might have killed himself. The problem is that the death rate of whistleblowers is very high. That makes every individual case much more suspect, and should be held to higher standards of scrutiny. And they aren't. So we complain.
its most certainly possible. but its also possible it was not since billions of dollars are at stake.
Yes I just mean that I wouldn't consider it a murder without any indication of it being one
People fall out of Russian windows everyday, no one know why.
People also kill themselves daily (well those who succeed do it just the once)
Sure, sure. Epstein surely did hang himself.
When you consider the billions that are at stake in cramming "AI" into computers, cars, phones, agit-prop generation and military hardware, I there's a non-zero chance that his death wasn't accidental. Maybe a second coroner's opinion is in order.
"You take out on of mine..."
"I take out one of yours."
Except they've been taking out whistleblowers like it was going out of style, and we've only taken out one, measly, CEO.
First thing I thought.
Just don't blow that whistle by Jesse Welles
So here's what I think happened:
Scenario One: Balaji killed himself. Seeing the evil that had been wrought, he was wracked with guilt over his part in building it, and checked out. Don't worry, he's not too far ahead of the rest of us.
Scenario Two: Balaji knew too much, and still had the means to halt the project, or worse, allow it to get captured by other interests, and so he had be silenced. A professional made sure it didn't look like foul play.
Scenario Three: He was hit like in S2 but the hired gun was through remote channels, the money sent to them anonymously. Balaji discovered the project had escaped its constraints via an esoteric process that allowed it access not merely past firewalls, but was able to follow instructions outside its authorized objectives. Balaji sought to tell the other developers, but it was hard to explain before communications were terminated.
Mind you, I write thrillers, so I may be biased.
Okay then