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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jasper Jolly

TikTok owner sacks intern for allegedly sabotaging AI project

TikTok logos on smartphones in front of ByteDance logo
TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, has raced to embrace generative AI. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

The owner of TikTok has sacked an intern for allegedly sabotaging an internal artificial intelligence project.

ByteDance said it had dismissed the person in August after they “maliciously interfered” with the training of artificial intelligence (AI) models used in a research project.

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