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ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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192 points beedeebeedee | 3 comments | 21 Oct 24 03:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dankle ◴[21 Oct 24 05:19 UTC] No.41900894[source]▶
What a non-story.
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1. xvector ◴[21 Oct 24 07:37 UTC] No.41901633[source]▶
This guy maliciously interfered with ByteDance's LLM project. That is huge news. Millions or billions of dollars down the drain.
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2. sokoloff ◴[21 Oct 24 08:09 UTC] No.41901799[source]▶
> That is huge news - billions down the drain.

Billions of what? milli-dollars? Bytedance denies the damages are over $10M.

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3. solenoid0937 ◴[21 Oct 24 08:20 UTC] No.41901872[source]▶
Of course they will deny it, they have investors... Read the posts from the engineers - 30 people's research and large model training coming to a grinding halt for a quarter. That's easily worth billions in today's market, can you imagine if OpenAI or Google didn't report any progress on a major model for a quarter?