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TikTok's parent company ByteDance has confirmed it fired an intern over the summer for allegedly interfering with the training of an artificial intelligence model.
The Beijing-based TikTok owner said in a social media post that it fired an intern in August for “maliciously” disrupting training for what it called a research project, but the intern's actions caused the company to “'Tens of millions of dollars' is a gross exaggeration,” said the translation, which said there were reports of damage.
TikTok's parent company ByteDance admits it fired an intern for allegedly interfering with the training of an AI model. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images)
ByteDance is known for its algorithm development, and the company, like other Big Tech companies around the world, is leaning toward AI as competition for superiority in building and using rapidly evolving models intensifies. There is.
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Earlier this month, the company, which has more than 10,000 employees in more than 200 cities around the world, confirmed it would lay off hundreds of employees as it shifts its focus to expanding its use of AI in content management.
ByteDance Inc.'s TikTok app website is displayed on a smartphone in this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, arrangement photo in Beijing, China. (Yan Kong/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Citing three familiar sources, Reuters reported In September, it was announced that ByteDance plans to develop AI models trained primarily on chips from fellow Chinese company Huawei. However, a ByteDance spokesperson denied these claims, telling the publication that “no new models are being developed.”
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Since the U.S. began restricting exports of advanced AI chips from market leader Nvidia and others in 2022, ByteDance has diversified into domestic suppliers of chips used in AI and accelerated its own development.
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AI is at the heart of the technology industry, with companies in sectors as diverse as gaming and e-commerce differentiating their products through the integration of custom AI models (programs that use pattern recognition to make decisions).
Reuters contributed to this report.
