ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, fired an intern who apparently screwed with the company's bespoke AI model. As the South China Morning Post reports, ByteDance sacked an intern earlier

Another commenter suggested that ByteDance was downplaying the damage. That commenter claimed that the intern used "malicious code" to "deliberately sabotage the training for several months" and suggested that the intern could face steeper penalties if ByteDance wanted to claim damages.

ByteDance says the now-dismissed intern 'maliciously interfered' with AI training and denies claims that 8,000 GPUs were involved.