TikTok proprietor, 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 claims in regards to the extent of the injury attributable to the unnamed particular person, saying they “include some exaggerations and inaccuracies”.
It comes after experiences in regards to the incident unfold over the weekend on social media.
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 [advertising] know-how workforce and has no expertise with the AI Lab,” ByteDance mentioned in a press release.
“Their social media profile and a few media experiences include inaccuracies.”
Its industrial on-line operations, together with its massive language AI fashions, have been unaffected by the intern’s actions, the corporate added.
ByteDance additionally denied experiences that the incident precipitated greater than $10m (£7.7m) of harm by disrupting an AI coaching system made up of 1000’s of highly effective graphics processing items (GPU).
In addition to firing the individual in August, ByteDance mentioned it had knowledgeable the intern’s college and trade our bodies in regards to the incident.
ByteDance operates a few of the world’s hottest social media apps, together with TikTok and its Chinese language-equivalent Douyin.
It’s extensively seen as a frontrunner with regards to algorithm improvement on account of how interesting its apps are to customers.
Like a lot of its friends in China and around the globe, the social media large is investing closely in AI.
It makes use of the know-how to energy its Doubao chatbot in addition to many different functions, together with a text-to-video instrument known as Jimeng.