ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, says it has fired an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. We do not know at the moment whether this person is a hero or a villain. The company rejects claims about the extent of the damage caused by the anonymous individual, saying they “contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies.” In other words, they do not want to acknowledge the extent of this sabotage, but it does not seem to be a minor issue. This comes after reports about the incident spread over the weekend on social media and […]
ByteDance, owner of TikTok, says it has fired an intern for ‘maliciously interfering’ with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. We do not know at the moment if this is a hero or a villain.
The company rejects the claims about the extent of the damage caused by the anonymous individual, saying that ‘they contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies.’ In other words, they don’t want to acknowledge the extent of this sabotage, but it doesn’t seem to be a minor issue.
This comes after reports about the incident were spread over the weekend on social media, making it public in this way.
The generative AI model Doubao ChatGPT from the Chinese tech giant is the most popular AI chatbot in the country.
‘The individual was an intern with the [advertising] technology team and has no experience with the AI Lab,’ ByteDance said in a statement. ‘His social media profile and some media reports contain inaccuracies.’
TikTok, for its part, says that its online business operations, including its large linguistic AI models, were not affected by the intern’s actions, the company added.
ByteDance also denied reports that the incident caused damages worth more than 10 million dollars by disrupting an AI training system composed of thousands of powerful graphics processing units (GPU).
In addition to dismissing the person in August, ByteDance said it had reported the incident to the intern’s university and industry organizations. ByteDance operates some of the world’s most popular social media apps, such as TikTok and its Chinese equivalent Douyin.
Like many of its counterparts in China and around the world, the social media giant is heavily investing in AI. It uses the technology to power its Doubao chatbot, as well as many other applications, including a text-to-video tool called Jimeng.
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