[fragmede]

All I got from the linked article was

> TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for "maliciously interfering" with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models.

Are there other links with additional info?

[mlyle]

A lot of the original social media sources have been pulled, but this is what was alleged on social media:

https://juejin.cn/post/7426926600422637594

https://github.com/JusticeFighterDance/JusticeFighter110

https://x.com/0xKyon/status/1847529300163252474

[fragmede]

Thanks. Google translate off the first link:

> He exploited the vulnerability of huggingface's load ckpt function to inject code, dynamically modifying other people's optimizer to randomly sleep for a short period of time, and modifying the direction of parameter shaving. He also added a condition that only tasks with more than 256 cards would trigger this condition.

Okay yeah that's malicious and totally a crime. "modifying the direction of parameter shaving" means he subtly corrupted his co-workers work. that's wild!

[mlyle]

Some of the sources say that he sat in the incident meetings during troubleshooting and adjusted his attacks to avoid detection, too.

[justinclift]

Wonder what the underlying motive was? Seems like a super weird thing to do.

[tyingq]

Could be just so his work looked better in comparison. Or something more sinister, like being paid to slow progress.

[NetOpWibby]

LMAO that's just diabolical. Wonder what motivated them.

[yorwba]

"parameter shaving" (参数剃度) is, by the way, a typo for "parameter gradient" (参数梯度), 梯度 being the gradient and 剃度 being a tonsure.