Wired: Meta Hired Hundreds of Contractors to Pose as Minors While Probing How Competitor Chatbots Respond to Suicide, Sex, and High-Risk Prompts
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Wired reports Meta deployed hundreds of contractors who posed as minors to red-team rival AI chatbots' responses on suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects. The project, described by Techmeme's frontpage summary, marks a notable escalation in how AI labs probe competitor safety behavior using human evaluators rather than automated tests. Article body could not be fetched for grounding; downstream enrichment will reattempt.
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NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me …
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Originally reported by wired.com
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