Former OpenAI Staffer Says the Company Is Breaking Copyright Law and Destroying the Internet
Suchir Balaji, a former researcher at OpenAI, recently wrote in his personal blog that he believes the company is not complying with US copyright law, adding to the growing number of voices that say the company's giant data scraping business is based on shaky legal ground. Balaji worked at OpenAI for four years before leaving this summer. He says that AI companies are destroying the commercial viability of the individuals, businesses, and internet services that created the digital data used to train AI systems. OpenAI claims it builds its AI models using publicly available data in a legal and fair way. The company is currently dealing with multiple lawsuits for its use of copyright material.