ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, has fired an intern for allegedly disrupting a training session on artificial intelligence.
ByteDance confirmed the worker was sentenced to prison in August for “maliciously interfering” with a research project to train AI models.
The company denied reports that the interns cost “tens of millions of dollars” and said those claims were “grossly exaggerated.”
“While the interns involved maliciously interfered with model training tasks for a commercial technology team's research project, they did not affect any formal commercial projects or online business, and were not involved in other businesses, such as ByteDance's large-scale models.” There was no involvement,” the TikTok owner said. I wrote it in the post on Chinese social news platforms.
ByteDance employs more than 110,000 people in more than 200 cities around the world and is considered a technology leader when it comes to algorithm development.
Last month, it was reported that ByteDance plans to develop AI models primarily trained on chips from Chinese company Huawei Technologies.
Since the U.S. began restricting exports of advanced AI chips from companies such as market leader Nvidia in 2022, ByteDance has diversified into domestic suppliers of chips used in artificial intelligence and We are accelerating development.
AI is playing a central role in various fields such as gaming and e-commerce.
ByteDance's next step in the AI race is to use Huawei's Ascend 910B chip to train large-scale language AI models, Reuters reported.
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