Recently, the editor of Downcodes learned that ByteDance issued an official response to the incident of "intern destroying large model training", admitting that an intern was dissatisfied with resource allocation and used a vulnerability in the Hugging Face platform to destroy the model training task of the commercialization technology team. The official statement emphasized that the incident did not affect the company's formal projects and online business, nor did it affect other large-scale model businesses. The rumors on the Internet about "losses of tens of millions of dollars" were seriously exaggerated. After the incident, the intern was fired, and ByteDance notified the relevant agencies of the matter.
ByteDance recently issued an official response to the rumors that "interns destroyed large model training". The company confirmed that there was indeed an intern who maliciously interfered with the research project model training tasks of the commercialization technology team, but this behavior did not affect the company’s formal commercial projects and online business, nor did it involve other ByteDance operations. Large model business.
In addition, ByteDance also pointed out that the statement circulating on the Internet that "more than 8,000 cards were involved and losses of tens of millions of dollars" was seriously exaggerated.
According to public reports, during the internship of the ByteDance commercialization technology team, the intern was dissatisfied with the team's resource allocation, took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Hugging Face platform, and used attack code to destroy the team's model training tasks.
Currently, the intern has been fired, and ByteDance has notified the industry alliance and the school where the intern worked.
Technical security experts pointed out that this incident exposed ByteDance's security management issues in technical training, and the company did not do a good job in permission isolation and auditing of shared code. Under normal circumstances, every major code change must be audited. No matter who operates it, there are traces recorded. It is impossible for one person to change the code.
Recently, ByteDance has been investing heavily in AI technology. In addition to the currently popular Doubao chatbot, there are also AI video generation tools called Meng, AI music generation tools Sponge Music, etc.
In addition, ByteDance also plans to invest approximately 1 billion ringgit (approximately US$2.13 billion) to establish an AI center in Malaysia to promote the development of the digital economy in the region. This shows ByteDance’s determination and investment in the AI field.
This incident has also sounded the alarm for other AI companies. It is particularly important to strengthen internal security management and improve code audit mechanisms to prevent similar incidents from happening again. The editor of Downcodes believes that with the rapid development of AI, security issues cannot be ignored.