OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

[Yel]

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.

www.mercurynews.com

It's a suprise to no one that tech companies are breaking all kinds of copywrite rules to train their algorithms, the tricky part is getting people in the know to testify.

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

 

[Veronicaaa]

"Whistleblower found dead" seems to be an increasingly common headline. This one, from earlier this year, shocked me -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business...arnett worked for Boeing,to the BBC on Monday. - but when looking for that link I discovered another one I either memory-holed or didn't notice at the time -

Another Boeing whistleblower is dead—this time a healthy 45-year-old who battled a sudden, severe infection

“It is known at Spirit that if you make too much noise and cause too much trouble, you will be moved,” Joshua Dean once told the Wall Street Journal.

fortune.com

 

[lilyannrose]

"Whistleblower found dead" seems to be an increasingly common headline. This one, from earlier this year, shocked me -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703#:~:text=John Barnett worked for Boeing,to the BBC on Monday. - but when looking for that link I discovered another one I either memory-holed or didn't notice at the time -

Another Boeing whistleblower is dead—this time a healthy 45-year-old who battled a sudden, severe infection

“It is known at Spirit that if you make too much noise and cause too much trouble, you will be moved,” Joshua Dean once told the Wall Street Journal.

fortune.com

I was just going to post the same.

People being bumped off to silence them has always gone on but it feels like it has become much more common and blatant?

 

[Veronicaaa]

They keep getting away with it, there’s never any legal blowback, is probably why. Just some nudge nudge wink wink articles, as though to prove that everyone knows what’s going on, but no further investigation.

 

[Yel]

"Whistleblower found dead" seems to be an increasingly common headline

Exactly, the number of whistleblowers found dead after exposing billion dollar companies seems a bit too high to all be a coincidence.

I don't want to sound like one of those people, but the frequency it happened and quickly gets swept away is something.

Maybe this should be a general "whistleblower found dead" thread

 

[Veronicaaa]

 

[rosie]

This highlights the issues with tech companies, I mean the difficulties in finding witnesses willing to disclose such practices, as outlined on this page about whistleblower protection.