TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

"The individual was an intern with the [advertising] technology team and has no experience with the AI Lab," ByteDance said in a statement. "Their social media profile and some media reports contain inaccuracies." Its commercial online operations, including its large language AI models, were unaffected by the intern's actions, the company added. ByteDance also denied reports that the incident caused more than 10m of damage by disrupting an AI training system made up of thousands of powerful graphics processing units (GPU). Aside from firing the person in August, ByteDance said it had informed the intern's university and industry bodies about the incident.