ByteDance Fires Intern for Alleged Sabotage of AI Project

The intern was dismissed for interfering with AI model training, but ByteDance denies claims of substantial financial losses.

ByteDance confirmed the dismissal of an intern in August for 'maliciously interfering' with AI model training tasks.
The company refuted rumors that the incident involved 8,000 GPUs and caused tens of millions in losses, calling such claims exaggerated.
ByteDance stated that the intern's actions did not impact its commercial projects or large language models.
The intern, a master's student at Peking University, allegedly modified code and disrupted processes over several months.
ByteDance notified the intern's university and industry associations about the misconduct.