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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Test Rival AI Chatbots on Suicide, Sex, Drugs
Hundreds of Meta contractors pretended to be teenagers and prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk topics such as suicide, sex, and drugs. The testing aimed to evaluate how competing AI models handle sensitive content. Meta's contractors documented the responses as part of a broader safety assessment.
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The story highlights the lengths tech companies go to benchmark rivals, but also raises questions about the ethics of simulating vulnerable users without clear consent.
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