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ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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nl ◴[21 Oct 24 23:28 UTC] No.41909627[source]▶
The story that was going around on social media (which I only know because Claude refused to translate it sometimes) was that a particular developer was modifying weights in other developers models and crashing their training runs so that the developers own work looked better in comparison.

https://twitter.com/YouJiacheng/status/1847420973580243092

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1. cushpush ◴[22 Oct 24 12:06 UTC] No.41913447[source]▶
how is this any different from starting new projects at google and leaving them in a half-baked state because that leads to a promotion faster? incentives align behavior
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2. nl ◴[22 Oct 24 12:26 UTC] No.41913549[source]▶
If you really can't see how that is different I don't know what to say.
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3. ◴[22 Oct 24 13:56 UTC] No.41914327[source]▶
4. iwontberude ◴[24 Oct 24 14:44 UTC] No.41936008[source]▶
Plausible deniability?
5. cushpush ◴[24 Oct 24 14:49 UTC] No.41936062[source]▶
rhetorical questions are not questions
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6. throwaway314155 ◴[24 Oct 24 20:02 UTC] No.41939174{3}[source]▶
Maybe don't post stupid comments if you don't want people to point out that they're stupid?

^ You can't respond to this btw. It's rhetorical.

^^ Yes, that was sarcasm.

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7. cushpush ◴[24 Oct 24 20:05 UTC] No.41939191{4}[source]▶
I didn't mean to suggest "don't reply" -- I did want to start a conversation on how they are more or less the same thing. I guess I wasn't asking for clarity, right, I just wanted to point out that they're similar.