TikTok proprietor sacks intern for sabotaging AI venture | EUROtoday

TikTok-owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the coaching of one in every of its synthetic intelligence (AI) fashions.

But the agency rejected studies in regards to the extent of the injury brought on by the unnamed particular person, saying they “contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies”.

BBC News has contacted ByteDance to request additional particulars in regards to the incident.

The Chinese expertise big’s Doubao ChatGPT-like generative AI mannequin is the nation’s hottest AI chatbot.

“The individual was an intern with the commercialisation technology team and has no experience with the AI Lab,” ByteDance stated in an announcement.

“Their social media profile and some media reports contain inaccuracies.”

Its business on-line operations, together with its massive language AI fashions, had been unaffected by the intern’s actions, the corporate added.

ByteDance additionally denied studies that the incident triggered greater than $10m of injury by disrupting an AI coaching system made up of hundreds of highly effective graphics processing items (GPU).

Aside from firing the individual in August, ByteDance stated it had knowledgeable the intern’s college and trade our bodies in regards to the incident.

The social media big has been investing closely in AI expertise, which it makes use of to energy not solely its Doubao chatbot but in addition many different purposes, together with a textual content -to-video software known as Jimeng.