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Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award
Keyu Tian and his coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the annual NeurIPS machine learning conference for their work on a new technique for generating images. Some have objected to the decision.
“NeurIPS gave best paper award to a super problematic work (not first time this has happened btw),” Abeba Birhane, head of the newly formed AI Accountability Lab at Trinity College, wrote on Bluesky. At the time, rumors were swirling on Chinese social media about a ByteDance intern who had supposedly caused the tech giant millions of dollars in losses by disrupting ongoing AI experiments at the company. It said that an intern on the “commercial technology team” had indeed been fired in August for committing “serious disciplinary violations,” but asserted that some aspects of the saga had been exaggerated in media reports, including that it involved 8,000 graphics processing units (GPUs)—computer chips that are needed to train high-powered AI models.
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