The parent company of TikTok says it has dismissed an intern that it found to have "maliciously interfered" with its artificial intelligence technology effort.

ByteDance, the China-based owner of TikTok, has confirmed that it terminated an intern over the summer for "maliciously" interfering with an artificial intelligence model.

TikTok’s parent company has admitted some of its training models have been sabotaged by one of its own interns.

TikTok owner ByteDance said it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with one of its artificial intelligence models.According to BBC, the tech company also clarified that reports of significant damage to the

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

The intern allegedly implanted a virus into ByteDance’s AI training program that impacted 8,000 graphics processing units.

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

After rumors swirled that TikTok owner ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged its AI models, ByteDance issued a statement this weekend hoping to silence all the social media chatter in China.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, confirmed it dismissed an intern in August for allegedly sabotaging its artificial intelligence (AI) model training project. The intern, who worked on ByteDance’s commercialization technology team,

ByteDance confirmed the worker was canned in August after having “maliciously interfered” on a research project to train AI models. The company denied reports that the intern cost it “tens of millions of dollars,