Work experience is often hard won, with internships just being one possible trial by fire. Even if you're not mucking up the office coffee order ("What do you mean it needs to be the colour of 'burnt almonds!?'"), you're still left feeling like you can never know enough. Well, rest assured whatever early career misstep you made, it can't be as bad as the story about this former intern who used to work for ByteDance, the owner of embattled short-form video app TikTok itself.
You may have already heard a rumour-mill version of this story, something along the lines of, 'intern injects malicious code into AI model, sabotaging 8000 GPUs and causing ByteDance to lose tens of millions of dollars.' Besides TikTok, ByteDance have also created Doubao, an incredibly popular AI chatbot Bloomberg called "China's answer to ChatGPT."
