TikTok-owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the coaching of one among its synthetic intelligence (AI) fashions.
However the agency rejected stories concerning the extent of the injury brought on by the unnamed particular person, saying they “comprise some exaggerations and inaccuracies”.
BBC Information has contacted ByteDance to request additional particulars concerning the incident.
The Chinese language know-how large’s Doubao ChatGPT-like generative AI mannequin is the nation’s hottest AI chatbot.
“The person was an intern with the commercialisation know-how staff and has no expertise with the AI Lab,” ByteDance mentioned in an announcement.
“Their social media profile and a few media stories comprise inaccuracies.”
Its industrial on-line operations, together with its massive language AI fashions, had been unaffected by the intern’s actions, the corporate added.
ByteDance additionally denied stories that the incident triggered greater than $10m of injury by disrupting an AI coaching system made up of hundreds of highly effective graphics processing models (GPU).
Except for firing the particular person in August, ByteDance mentioned it had knowledgeable the intern’s college and trade our bodies concerning the incident.
The social media large has been investing closely in AI know-how, which it makes use of to energy not solely its Doubao chatbot but in addition many different functions, together with a text-to-video device known as Jimeng.
