Social media giant owner fires intern for ‘maliciously’ interfering with AI project

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TikTok parent company ByteDance has confirmed it terminated an intern over the summer for allegedly sabotaging the training of an artificial intelligence model.

The Beijing-based TikTok owner said in a social media post that it had fired an intern in August for “maliciously” interfering with the training of what it referred to as a research project, but said a report claiming that the intern’s actions cost the company “‘tens of millions of dollars’ is seriously exaggerated,” according to a translation.

TikTok parent ByteDance confirmed it fired an intern for allegedly sabotaging the training of an AI model (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images / Getty…

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