Bytedance intern saga: new claims of disguised sabotage and a demo secretly running open-source PixArt
oran_ge · x · 2026-10-14
The other intern in the Bytedance sabotage saga has responded with new allegations: sabotage disguised as random failures, adjusted in real time from inside debugging meetings, stumping teams across Beijing, Shanghai and Seattle for a month or two. He is also accused of faking results on the VAR text-to-image project, allegedly running open-source PixArt in demos (with a hidden "City" prefix to dodge identical-prompt comparisons) while burning 1,000+ GPUs. The implied motive: win the internal competition for resources against the Goku project. The quoted original thread recounts Tian Kewu's own account — he says he only killed the other intern's tasks five times in ten days to stop GPU hogging, denies poisoning models or framing others, and notes Bytedance is appealing after a court awarded 500K yuan of the 8M+ claimed.
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