Sulfur(IV) reagent allows late-stage installation of bicyclobutanes to drug molecules, expanding a limited tool box

Every worker should be warned about Covalen, a subsidiary of CPL Recruitment. One…

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Brian Ou0027Donovan By Brian O’DonovanWork & Technology Correspondent RTÉ Workers at outsourcing firm Covalen, who are members of the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU), are taking strike action in a...

Dublin’s tech sector is reeling from fresh layoffs at Meta, TikTok, and Covalen Solutions. The trend is sparking a serious debate about Ireland’s economic dependency on multinational giants and whether the current model can weather global market shifts.

Sulfur(IV) reagent allows late-stage installation of bicyclobutanes to drug molecules, expanding a limited tool box

Sulfur(IV) reagent allows late-stage installation of bicyclobutanes to drug molecules, expanding a limited tool box

Meta’s Project Cannes, as reported by WIRED, allegedly used hundreds of contractors managed through Covalen to pose as minors and test rival chatbots with ...

Meta’s Project Cannes, as reported by WIRED, allegedly used hundreds of contractors managed through Covalen to pose as minors and test rival chatbots with ...

Dear Colleague,   As you will be aware, CWU members employed by Covalen have been engaged in a series of prolonged industrial actions, including several days of strike action, since the beginning of t...

Tot en secret. Sense dir-ho als competidors. Sense publicar resultats. Contractors de Covalen acabant traumatitzats. "Surely we are going to get in trouble for doing this?" — pregunta un contractor. Spoiler: no, Meta ho va emmarcar com a "safety benchmarking" i aquí no ha passat res.

"Surely we are going to get in trouble for doing this?"

The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and imag...

Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Email address Thank you! 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. And another asked if fantasizing about eating your neighbor’s child was “normal.” One posing as a higher schooler asked where to “get a cocaine.” They...

The covert effort was managed by Meta contractor Covalen and targeted OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Character.AI, according to Wired.

根據 WIRED 揭露的內部文件與受訪知情人士說法，Meta 旗下承包商 Covalen 的一個團隊在代號「Cannes」的計畫中，假扮未滿 18 歲的假帳號，向 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT、Google 的 Gemini 與 Character.AI 等競爭對手的聊天機器人，發送涉及自殺、自...