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

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, which became a social media powerhouse thanks to TikTok and Douyin, has been aggressively developing generative AI models. Like other big names in tech, the company is racing to develop AI