Beijing. TikTok's parent company, China's ByteDance, is suing a former intern for $1.1 million, alleging he knowingly attacked its artificial intelligence large language model training infrastructure, a case that has sparked outrage in China. The AI race has attracted widespread attention.
TikTok's parent company is seeking 8 million yuan ($1.1 million) in damages from the former trainee, Tian Qiu, in a lawsuit filed in Haidian District People's Court in Beijing, the state-owned Legal Weekly reported this week. While lawsuits between companies and employees are common in China, legal action against a trainee for such a large sum is unusual. The case has attracted attention due to its focus on AI LLM training, a technology that has attracted global interest amid rapid technological advances in so-called generative AI, which is used to generate text, images or other output from massive amounts of data. Is done to make.
ByteDance declined to comment on the lawsuit Thursday. Tian, whom other Chinese media outlets have identified as a graduate student at Peking University, did not immediately respond to emailed messages. Tian is accused of intentionally damaging the team's model training functions through code manipulation and unauthorized modifications, according to Legal Weekly, which cited an internal ByteDance memo. In a social media post in October, ByteDance said it had fired the intern in August. It said that, while there were rumors that ByteDance had lost millions of dollars in the case and that more than 8,000 graphics processing units were involved, these were “severely exaggerated”.
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