A former OpenAI researcher accuses his previous employer of violating copyright laws in developing ChatGPT. Suchir Balaji, who left the company in August 2023, helped collect and organize internet data for the chatbot, as he reveales in interviews with the New York Times. The 25-year-old scientist is convinced that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data was illegal and that technologies like ChatGPT are harmful to the internet. According to Balaji, chatbots threaten the economic viability of individuals, businesses, and internet services whose digital data was used to train AI systems. OpenAI denies these allegations, citing the “fair use” principle in utilizing publicly available data.