boyi

@boyi@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok owner ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get more context from the comments at Hacker News. Below is taken from from one of the comment:

  Translated by ChatGPT.

  Summary:

  10/18:

  Translation of the provided text:

  Title: Urgent Warning

  The “reputation washing” behavior of Tian Keyu has been extremely harmful

  For the past two months, Tian Keyu has maliciously attacked the cluster code, causing significant harm to nearly 30 employees of various levels, wasting nearly a quarter’s worth of work by his colleagues. All records and audits clearly confirm these undeniable facts:

  1. Modified the PyTorch source code of the cluster, including random seeds, optimizers, and data loaders.

  2. Randomly killed multi-machine experiment processes, causing significant experiment delays.

  3. Opened login backdoors through checkpoints, automatically initiating random process terminations.

  4. Participated in daily troubleshooting meetings for cluster faults, continuing to modify attack codes based on colleagues’ troubleshooting ideas.

  5. Altered colleagues’ model weights, rendering experimental results unreproducible.

  It’s unimaginable how Tian Keyu could continue his attacks with such malice, seeing colleagues’ experiments inexplicably interrupted or fail, after hearing their debugging strategies and specifically modifying the attack codes in response, and witnessing colleagues working overnight with no progress. After being dismissed by the company, he received no penalties from the school or advisors and even began to whitewash his actions on various social media platforms. Is this the school and advisors’ tolerance of Tian Keyu’s behavior? We expect this evidence disclosure to attract the attention of relevant parties and for definitive penalties to be imposed on Tian Keyu, reflecting the social responsibility of higher education institutions to educate and nurture.

  We cannot allow someone who has committed such serious offenses to continue evading justice, even beginning to distort facts and whitewash his wrongdoing! Therefore, we decide to stand on behalf of all justice advocates and reveal the evidence of Tian Keyu’s malicious cluster attack!

  Tian Keyu, if you deny any part of these malicious attack behaviors, or think the content here smears you, please present credible evidence! We are willing to disclose more evidence as the situation develops, along with your shameless ongoing attempts to whitewash. We guarantee the authenticity and accuracy of all evidence and are legally responsible for the content of the evidence. If necessary, we are willing to disclose our identities and confront Tian Keyu face-to-face.

  Thanks to those justice advocates, you do not need to apologize; you are heroes who dare to speak out.

  Link to the inquiry recording of Tian Keyu: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEYbYW--qN8

  Personal homepage of Tian Keyu: scholar.google.com/citations?user=6FdkbygAAAAJ&hl…

  GitHub homepage of Tian Keyu: github.com/keyu-tian

  10/19:

  Clarification Regarding the “Intern Sabotaging Large Model Training” Incident

  Recently, some media reported that “ByteDance’s large model training was attacked by an intern.” After internal verification by the company, it was confirmed that an intern from the commercial technology team committed a serious disciplinary violation and has been dismissed. However, the related reports also contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies, which are clarified as follows:

  1. The intern involved maliciously interfered with the model training tasks of the commercial technology team’s research project, but this did not affect the official commercial projects or online operations, nor did it involve ByteDance’s large model or other businesses.

  2. Rumors on the internet about “involving over 8,000 cards and losses of millions of dollars” are greatly exaggerated.

  3. Upon verification, it was confirmed that the individual in question had been interning in the commercial technology team, and had no experience interning at AI Lab. Their social media bio and some media reports are incorrect.

  The intern was dismissed by the company in August. The company has also reported their behavior to the industry alliance and the school they attend, leaving further actions to be handled by the school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Navy Chief On USS Manchester Demoted After Sneaking Starlink Satellite Dish Onboard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder why the co-conspirator is not name in the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many leaders in tech evil?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bill Gates during the early years, yes. But now, I thought he’s turned 180®.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is already a privacy nightmare, in some way. There was a comment showing the screengrab of those peiple who upvoted and downvoted a post. Basically, if you self-host an instance, you’ll have access to these. This can easily be weaponized by certain organizations that want to create profiling of lemmy users, e.g NSA and Intelligence agencies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Malaysia is first country to issue ‘do not travel to UK' warning over riots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do they have to spin the story?

  Newspaper Title:

  Do not travel to UK

  The Exact Malaysia Travel advice:

  Malaysians residing in or travelling to the United Kingdom are urged to stay away from protest areas, remain vigilant and follow the latest updates and guidance provided by local authorities.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use encfs and sync it to dropbox etc. Then use gopass password manager to store password in the encfs folders. Not fully auto-integrated but good enough for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very unlikely, If you read and refer to the article. The identity was stolen but the pic is a stock photo.

  The two images at the top of this story are a stock photo and what KnowBe4 says is the AI fake based on the stock photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no matter our computational techniques, the diminishing returns in predictive precision is reached far sooner than we achieve general intelligence

  Thar very bold presumption. How can they be so sure of this, that any future models can tackle the issue? have they got proof or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery bulging (probably not true)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah! even conspiracy downvoted your posts. Can you imagine how dump it is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery bulging (probably not true)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  damn. you’re dumber than I thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy maintainer works on Lemmy while at prom⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you don’t understand, do you? This kind of post is out of place, has ‘attention seeker’ vibe - those that we rarely come across on Lemmy but usually found on Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Man Who Killed Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I follow up your suggestion - come back and read the article. No doubt, a very engaging read. Thx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Man Who Killed Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Man Who Killed Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Man Who Killed Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  anyone can tldr?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy maintainer works on Lemmy while at prom⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is better posted at Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can (somehow) already use ARM with Linux, eg Armbian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Everyone in the world needs to see this': An Israeli army drone pursued four unarmed youth civilians attempting to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  who fucked up the handling of Mandatory Palestine in the first place.

  The British didn’t fuck up. It was done exactly as intended and designed by the Zionist movement to give the Israel the strategic leverage to occupy more and more land after the initial partitioning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought ‘victorinox rescue tool’ works for laminated glass. It even has glass cutter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  vixtorinox (swiss army) rescue tool. It’s a locked knife - most probably illegal in many places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the correct term you need is ‘unachievable’, not ‘false’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is this incorrect? In which field? And how do confirm you the validity of your methodology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  strength is it’s replicable. Not just somebody claiming something without justifying it can happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some languages use gendered nouns?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am quite disappointed. I also think same exact question as my native language is not gender based. I expect to see answers based on studies or research. Much that I see here are opinions. Lemmy doesn’t seem to have subject matter experts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. But I don’t use Samsung. Used to but no more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For android users, we can easily set notifications if battery level reach certain range by using apps like Tasker. Before this I set it for full change. Change it to above 80% just now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish to re-live my school life with better career counselling experience. Career counsellors were non-existent during my school years. I supposed, my career path will be a lot less complicated if someone could direct me to the right career based on my inclination instead of me choosing jobs that has nice titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  kinda agree with this, to some extend. We can only do selective boycott, those that won’t directly affect our life given that there are other options, like not going to Starbucks or McD. If we really want to boycott Israeli products and techs, we won’t get access to modern tech at all - they are everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, I get a realistic answer.

  Anyway, if I am a capitalist like Bezos, I will discreetly implement the full automation system to a new factory instead of rebuilding the system in already existing factory. By doing that, the system is there by design and its introduction won’t impact any prospective workers, because there won’t be any (existing) worker anyway. However, its impact to the society can’t be neglected, because it’s. a lost opportunity for low-skilled people.

  If there are enough number fully automated facilties built this way and if there is no social system in place to help them, the unemployable lower skilled workers will be doomed. As a capitalist, I don’t care. The politicians won’t bat an eye, as they’re no issues being raise as it is done discreetly. The low-skilled people will become more.and more impoverished without them ever realize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Automation is not the point of argument. That going to happens no matter what. Inm fact I touch about it in my other comment.

  The point to ponder is how to address the impact of automation. As far as I know even without full automation, the US (and many other capitalism based) don’t have a good record to address the difficulty faced by low skilled workers, e.g. depicted by Nomadland. To simply give utopian solution won’t address the issue and would be premature.

  Unless we are talking about Scandinavian countries social system, that’s a whole different issue.