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TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project


Chinese technology giant ByteDance denied reports that the incident caused more than $10m of damage.

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 $10m of damage by disrupting an AI training system made up of thousands of powerful graphics processing units (GPU). The social media giant has been investing heavily in AI technology, which it uses to power not only its Doubao chatbot but also many other applications, including a text-to-video tool called Jimeng.

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