Wired6d agoTech1 min read
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Probe Chatbots on Sensitive Topics
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Meta hired contractors to impersonate teenagers, testing how rival chatbots (e.g., Gemini, ChatGPT) respond to discussions on suicide, sex, and drugs, as revealed by WIRED.
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Meta's project involved testing chatbot responses to sensitive topics by impersonating teenagers.
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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
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