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Meta Contractors Masqueraded as Minors to Probe Competitor AI Safety Systems in Secret Project
Internal documents and testimonies from five individuals familiar with a clandestine project known as "Cannes" reveal that Meta commissioned hundreds of contractors to systematically pose as minors online to test the safety thresholds of rival artificial intelligence chatbots. Managed by the third-party firm Covalen, the operation targeted major industry players, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, […]
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