Listen y’all, it’s a sabotage.

Folks in the online AI research community are upset after the world’s biggest AI conference, NeurIPS, gave its prestigious Best Paper Award to, among others, a controversial former ByteDance intern named Keyu Tian, writes Wired.

ByteDance allegedly dismissed Tian for sabotaging colleagues’ AI research and hoarded resources for his own work — accusations detailed in an anonymous GitHub blog calling for the award to be revoked.