TikTok Owner Sacks Intern For Sabotaging AI Project 11
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, fired an intern for "maliciously interfering" with the training of one of its AI models. However, the firm "rejected claims about the extent of the damage caused by the unnamed individual, saying they 'contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies,'" reports the BBC. From the report: The Chinese technology giant's Doubao ChatGPT-like generative AI model is the country's most popular AI chatbot. "The individual was an intern with the [advertising] technology team and has no experience with the AI Lab," ByteDance said in a statement. "Their social media profile and some media reports contain inaccuracies." Its commercial online operations, including its large language AI models, were unaffected by the intern's actions, the company added.
ByteDance also denied reports that the incident caused more than $10 million of damage by disrupting an AI training system made up of thousands of powerful graphics processing units (GPU). As well as firing the person in August, ByteDance said it had informed the intern's university and industry bodies about the incident.
ByteDance also denied reports that the incident caused more than $10 million of damage by disrupting an AI training system made up of thousands of powerful graphics processing units (GPU). As well as firing the person in August, ByteDance said it had informed the intern's university and industry bodies about the incident.
Was expecting the catch to be... (Score:1)
Where's the beef? (Score:1)
What a non-article, no actual information, just a lot of 'what didn't happen' -- so wtf DID happen? Journalism anyone...
Re: Where's the beef? (Score:3)
Where have you been?
Even the big newspapers won't actually report what happened or what was said if it involves bad words or unpleasant implications.
Re: (Score:2)
There's only one actual question: Did they disrupt a foundation dataset or a finetune dataset?
Disrupting a foundation would involve polluting a lot of data, with a lot of pollution. Disrupting a finetune is pretty simple and doesn't require too extensive effort. Put in half a dozen or so question and answer cases where the answer involves Elon Musk being a anthropomorphic clownfish, and it'll be pretty confident that he is one in its answers.
But training a finetune isn't some huge cost. It's the foundati
Re: (Score:2)
There's only one actual question: Did they disrupt a foundation dataset or a finetune dataset?
Disrupting a foundation would involve polluting a lot of data, with a lot of pollution. Disrupting a finetune is pretty simple and doesn't require too extensive effort. Put in half a dozen or so question and answer cases where the answer involves Elon Musk being a anthropomorphic clownfish, and it'll be pretty confident that he is one in its answers.
But training a finetune isn't some huge cost. It's the foundation that's the big cost. You can train a finetune in a day.
Puffer. Elon Musk is an anthropomorphic puffer fish. Look at those cheeks and tell me I'm wrong.
Not sabotage (Score:5, Funny)
It was just Bobby Tables [xkcd.com] cousin, Eddie Ignore All Previous Instructions.
\o/ (Score:2)
Schmik-Mok: From today, we will... continue to not pay you.
Intern: Uhhhhh.....
schroedinger's disgruntled intern (Score:2)
"the intern, who was an unqualified moron who somehow got this position anyway, managed to deploy a sophisticated attack on our infrastructure."
"the intern caused over $20,000,000 in damages, involving a lot of expensive hardware and our internal datasets. however this is expected to have no negative impact whatsoever on our performance and, more importantly, our stock price."
uh okay.
Retribution much? (Score:2)
As well as firing the person in August, ByteDance said it had informed the intern's university and industry bodies about the incident.
To what end? So they can give them an award? Seriously, there isn't a single university or company outside of China that would want TikTok to have better AI.