Suchir Balaji was a researcher living in San Francisco, CA. He passed away a few days ago. He previously was an AI researcher at OpenAI from 2020-2024, and before that did his undergrad at UC Berkeley. In his blog (https://suchir.net/), he recently published an article titled "When does generative AI qualify for fair use?" which has attracted a lot of media coverage. I am copying it here to preserve it. When does generative AI qualify for fair use? Suchir Balaji 10/23/2024 While generative models rarely produce outputs that are substantially similar to any of their training inputs, the process of training a generative ...