“The individual was an intern with the [advertising] technology team and has no experience with the AI Lab”
ByteDance fired the intern in August for “maliciously interfering” with training one of its AI models. It denies reports of more than $10m in damage to a cluster of thousands of GPUs, and calls them exaggerated. Its defence is that an ad-team intern with no AI Lab experience got close enough to sabotage model training. That is not the reassurance ByteDance thinks it is.