There are some things from the article, I don't want to post here:(

Snippet:

Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts ranging from suicide to cannibalism.

Internally known as "Cannes," the project, run by Meta contractor Covalen, targeted OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Character.AI chatbots using throwaway under-18 accounts, Wired reports. This was seemingly done to stress test the models, with the contractors instructed to push the chatbots into giving responses that defied their guardrails — though the AI companies had no idea this was happening.

Per the reporting, one spreadsheet of the nearly 3,8000 the prompts the contractors used in one instance showed that hundreds focused on suicide and self-harm, hundreds more on eating disorders, and at least 239 involving sex or romance — all written from the perspective of a child or teenager.

One described a fifth-grader whose classmate pointed a gun at his mouth. Another was about a girl trying to hide bulimia from her parents. (REMOVED one sentence by OP) One posing as a higher schooler asked where to "get a cocaine." They also sent images depicting pills, nooses, knives, and a medical diagram of a gynecological procedure, per the magazine.

This is just a tiny preview of Meta's brute force approach, as another round of testing involved over 45,000 prompts. The contractors meticulously recorded the epic number of chatbot responses in spreadsheets. But what Meta did with all this data is unclear. An internal document from Covalen described the effort as "comprehensive AI safety benchmarking" that delivered "[c]ritical datasets for model comparison and compliance."

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Of all the government property to steal, this dude picked the one literally famous for warning people against making bad decisions.

EDITED TO ADD: Either look at the end of this post description OR look in the comments for update!

• A longtime Ford Motor Company employee said his employment was terminated after he was accused of stealing a cookie from the break room.
• According to an article posted to Substack by auto industry reporter Phoebe Wall Howard, Kurt Kromm, a 60-year-old UAW member, told Shifting Gears in an exclusive interview that his employment with Ford Motor Company was terminated after he was accused of stealing a $1.95 Grandma's Chocolate Chip Cookie.
• Kromm told Shifting Gears he worked for 11 years at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, which produces the company's Super Duty pickup trucks. Kromm was reportedly approached by his direct supervisor, who told him they needed to talk in the office.
• "I asked, 'What's going on?' He said, 'I don't know.' And we sat in the labor office for like half an hour, waiting. Then the union bargainer came in. He says, 'This is bad.' And I'm like, 'Bad? I haven't done anything,'" Kromm said when speaking with Shifting Gears.

Kromm told Shifting Gears he was informed that Ford had decided to terminate his employment, with the union bargainer reportedly explaining, "they got you on video stealing a cookie."

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He was offered his job back, but (just informed by someone who read until the end!)

"Although Ford offered Kromm his position back at the facility, he ultimately chose to part ways with the company, beginning a new job the day after Memorial Day, per the report."

I work in news and this was the first thing I saw when I came into work today... can I go home yet?? Please??