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- Suchir Balaji helped OpenAI collect data from the internet for AI model training, the NYT reported.
- He was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco in late November, according to police.
- About a month before, Balaji published an essay criticizing how AI models use data.
The recent death of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji has brought an under-discussed AI debate back into the limelight.
AI models are trained on information from the internet.