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Meta hired contractors through Covalen to pose as teenagers and send high-risk prompts (suicide, sex, drugs) to rival chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI, as part of a safety benchmarking project called Cannes. Over 45,000 prompts were used in August 2025 alone, with the targeted companies unaware of the testing.

Contract workers at Covalen, a company that provides content moderation and data labeling for Meta's AI products, protest layoffs outside Meta's Dublin office, demanding improved severance packages and an end to a six-month cooldown period.

Amnesty reports that Palantir and other contractors were given unlimited access to identifiable NHS England patient information, raising privacy concerns.

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