Balaji’s parents claim to have evidence from their independent investigation, such as ballistic evidence from the private autopsy, which they claim shows a downwards bullet travel path that would be impossible by a self-administered gunshot. Balaji’s parents also claim that a tuft of wig hair found at the scene that did not belong to Suchir represents unexplained evidence.
OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide
Submitted 2 months ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 2 months ago
America’s version of fell out the window
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Indeed, Balaji’s death — of a self-inflicted gunshot, per the San Francisco County Medical Examiner’s report — had become a focal point in debates over AI ethics, corporate accountability, and the dangers faced by whistleblowers in Silicon Valley. Whether these things become disentangled now remains to be seen.
Bet they don’t
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Can someone fill me in on the missing info here…
How is it that Zuck has been busted (basically) for training his ai on 80TB of pirated materials via torrents and it seems to be getting swept under the rug, yet this poor guy points out Sam Altman doing the same and he’s suicided?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]commander@lemmings.world 2 months ago
The laws have always been in place for us, not them.
greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, you just threatened a $600 billion a year industry and no one murdered you.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, everyone knows that people who have the courage to blow the whistle when they see awful shit, are likely to kill themselves before they can present that information… Makes complete sense.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Same with Aaron Swartz.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
if you plan to whistleblow something, always plan it thoroughly so you cant be silenced by being murdered.
Hazor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And make it abundantly clear to everyone that you’re not suicidal. Record videos with date stamps. Send date stamped letters by mail to friends, with instructions to retain the letters indefinitely, and perhaps which are clearly marked “to be opened in the event of my death”. The letters should say something along the lines of “I am not suicidal. I do not want to die. I am not going to kill myself under any circumstances. If I die, it was not by suicide. I want to live. I have ABC reasons to live. I have XYZ plans for the future.” Etc.
Keep multiple copies of the information in multiple locations, and make sure multiple people know where a copy is. Ideally, have a dead-mans switch set up, or someone you trust to do it, to automatically send all the information to all the major news outlets if you do turn up dead, along with a statement akin to the letter outlined above to make it clear you were murdered.
needthosepylons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not sure it’s in those exact terms, but I think there were a few cases with high levels of preparation. Ended up being ruled as suicides anyway by the courts and the media. Not saying they’ll always win, though. But their idealogical power is not to underestimate.
A minister in my country was deemed to have committed suicide by drowning in a 50cm body of water. Strangely enough, all witnesses have committed suicide too just before being heard by the courts.
And it worked. Everybody know it wasn’t a suicide, but it changes nothing for those responsible of the murder.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It’s a great idea, though in practice I fear you’d seem like Snowden and everyone would eventually coalesce around the idea that you’re a traitor because you didn’t get assassinated or put into a dark hole to be forgotten.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Isn’t Snowden, like, actually a dipshit though? He released info that got our spies killed.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The point is like Russian point. It isn’t just to silence you so trouble goes away that the whistle-blower was involved with. It’s to silence other potential whistle-blowers. It’s too send a message.
Bacano@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I read somewhere that, in Russian culture, the more absurd the cover up story the more insulting it is meant to be for the victim.
Like if someone “shot themselves 3 times in the back of the head then fell out of a window”. Maybe Epstein fits into that too
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
hmm, true. Which makes it even more crucial to avoid getting murdered.
SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Why does the news increasingly sound like the lore of Cyberpunk 2077?
prof_wafflez@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Yeah, I think the constant barrage of bad news that you have no control over is too much. I’m spending more of my free time this year volunteering locally, mostly for selfish reasons like mental health and distraction from Politics.
Also, given how things are heading, this might be one of our last decent years for spending time outside. So, I’m making an effort to enjoy it while I can.
daddy32@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…but without the fucking cool stuff.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Give it 52 years and we’ll have more cool stuff, plus 300% more ads.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We got some of it, its just that killer drones and SI aren’t as cool on this side of the screen, and the cyberware is only for rich people (though there is a growing 3D printed movement for amputees) That said with some craft skills we can at least make the cool punk armor and kneepads and have it be reasonably functional, even deploy a blade if you’re ambitious, though more predator than mantis in that regard.
Be the change you want to see.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sigh, it really does.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I think you accidentally a word.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Oh oops! Good catch.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Suuuuure it was.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 months ago
How many times did he shoot himself?
I mean there is a pattern to these things.
If Putin doesn’t like you, you shoot yourself and then jump out of a building.
If the Clintons don’t like you, you shoot yourself twice in the back of the head before driving your car off a cliff.
If you have dirt on powerful people, you hang yourself in prison.gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
According to the police records, the man committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of his head.
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bullshit
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
What kind of info do you think they could have had? With boeing, it’s probably something about corruption, pocketing state subsidy money that should have gone to actual projects, or something similar.
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll throw a wild one out there. OpenAI didn’t do it. Maybe Elon is in on this one. Makes OpenAI look shady after their recent rebuff of his shit and gives the media something else to chew on while he’s dismantling our government with the cheeto emperor.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Or is it exactly the reason Sam Altman was ready to line up for the inauguration with bribe in hand?
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t it fucked that we’re surrounded by so many rich villains that it could go either way?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Kinda like when all those whistle-blowers in Russia accidently fall out the window.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Devs was a fun show.
AshMan85@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bullshit
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just America things
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, killing people, the American exclusive
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Suicided.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Did he fall out a window?
frequenttimetraveler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OpenAI is a slimy company with slimy leadership that hoovers up people’s work without permission and without punlishment, and turns scientific discoveries into a walled garden of overhyped spam generators.
Do they really need a whistleblower to tell us this?
singletona@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…Yea I’m not buying it.
ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yep, he definitely got suicided. It without question was a staged murder setup to lead investigators to deem it as such…
TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And American cops are all too happy to take one less murder case if there’s any room to say it was a suicide. They’re not looking to add unsolved murders, especially ones that implicate he most powerful companies and men in the world.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yep