TikTok owner sacks intern for allegedly sabotaging AI project

The owner of TikTok has sacked an intern for allegedly sabotaging an internal artificial intelligence project. ByteDance said it had dismissed the person in August after they "maliciously interfered" with the training of artificial intelligence (AI) models used in a research project. Thanks to the video-sharing app TikTok and its Chinese counterpart, Douyin, which rank among the world's most popular mobile apps, ByteDance has risen to become one of the world's most important social media companies. Like other big players in the tech sector, ByteDance has raced to embrace generative AI. Its Doubao chatbot earlier this year took over from the competitor Baidu's Ernie in the race to produce a Chinese rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT.