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

Congressman Andy Barr (R-Ky.) grapples with legislation aimed at countering Chinese aggression, the ongoing TikTok controversy, a looming government shutdown deadline, and Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas. Discuss the House of Representatives, focusing on its achievements. TikTok's parent company ByteDance has confirmed it fired an intern over the summer for allegedly interfering with the training of […]

TikTok owner fires intern who ‘maliciously interfered’ with AI project

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 […]