The Chinese company by BYTEDANCE, which belongs to Tiktok, filed a lawsuit against 8 million yuan ($ 1.1 million) against its former trainee. The company accuses him of a deliberate attack on infrastructure to teach a large language model of artificial intelligence.
According to the state publication Legal Weekly , lawsuit against Tien Kayuya, graduate student of Beijing University , filed in the People’s Court of the Khaidyan district in Beijing. Legal Weekly, referring to the internal memorandum of BYTEDEDANCE, reports that the trainee deliberately saboted the tasks of teaching models, manipulating the code and making unauthorized changes.
In October, BYTEDANCE reported on the dismissal of an interns in August. The company also refuted rumors about multimillion -dollar losses and damage to more than 8,000 graphic processors, calling this data “seriously exaggerated.”
Although the lawsuit between companies and employees in China are widespread, trials against interns on such large amounts are rare. The case attracted attention due to his connection with the training of large language models of AI – technology that causes global interest against the background of the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence.
ByTedance refused to comment on the trial.