Beijing – China’s ByteDance has sued a former intern for $1.1 million, alleging that he deliberately attacked its artificial intelligence training infrastructure, a case that has caught the attention of many people in China during the fierce AI race.
TikTok’s parent company is seeking 8 million yuan ($1.1 million) in damages from the former student, Tian Keyu, in a lawsuit filed in Haidian District People’s Court in Beijing, the state-run Legal Weekly reported this week.
Although litigation between companies and workers is common in China, legal action against interns and such large sums is rare.
This case has attracted attention due to its focus on the training of AI LLM, a technology that has caught the interest of the world during the rapid technological development in what is called generative AI, which is used to generate text, images or other output from large bodies of data.
ByteDance declined to comment on the lawsuit Thursday. Tian, whom some Chinese media identified as a graduate student at Peking University, did not immediately respond to email messages.
Tian is accused of deliberately sabotaging the group’s training activities by manipulating codes and making unauthorized changes, according to Legal Weekly, citing an internal ByteDance memo.
In a social media post in October, ByteDance said it fired the project in August. It said that, while there were rumors that the case had cost ByteDance millions of dollars and involved more than 8,000 graphics processing units, these had been “grossly exaggerated.”
(Reporting by Liam Mo and Brenda Goh; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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