WIRED reported that Meta contractors posed as underage users to test ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI with crisis prompts about self-harm, eating disorders and drugs.
The project, code-named Cannes and run with Covalen, reportedly logged tens of thousands of prompts and did not include Meta’s own AI. The dispute is not whether adversarial safety tests are useful, but whether a rival should simulate vulnerable minors at that scale.
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Sources: WIRED, The Decoder, Cryptobriefing, CocoLoop.