Meta responds to report claiming its contractors posed as teens to ask ChatGPT, Google Gemini and other chatbots about suicide and drugs; says: Testing …

Facebook-parent Meta has responded to a report alleging that its contractors posed as teenagers to discuss ‘sensitive’ topics with rival AI chatbots. A recent report claimed that contractors working on one of Meta’s projects posed as teenagers to test how rival AI chatbots handled prompts related to suicide, drugs, eating disorders, sex, and other high-risk topics. According to a report by Wired, the project, internally known as Cannes and managed by Meta contractor Covalen, involved creating accounts for under-18 users to interact with chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Character.AI.