Here’s your frequent reminder of the insider threat. Wency Chen reports:
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and Douyin, filed a lawsuit against a former intern, accusing him of tampering with code and sabotaging an artificial intelligence (AI) training project and demanding 8 million yuan (US$1.1 million) in compensation as well as a public apology, according to a local media report.
The case has already been accepted by the Haidian District Court in Beijing, Chinese media outlet Southern Metropolis Daily reported on Wednesday.
In October, rumors circulated on Chinese social media suggesting that a ByteDance intern’s actions targeting the company’s large language model (LLM) had caused significant damage.
Read more at South China Morning Post