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"The intern involved maliciously interfered with the model training tasks..."Internal AffairsByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, fired an intern who apparently screwed with the company's artificial intelligence projects.As Ars Technica and other outlets report, the social media firm has confirmed that the unnamed commercial team intern was terminated in August after he messed with ByteDance AI models."The intern involved maliciously interfered with the model training tasks of the commercial technology team's research project," the company said in a statement on its content platform Toutiao, "but it did not affect the formal commercial projects and online business, nor did it involve…