Meta Wanted To Test Chatbots, So An Army Of Contractors Posed As 13-Year-Olds To Talk about Suicide And Racism

Source: International Business Times

Meta hired contractors to test the safety responses of rival chatbots. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images Meta hired a team of contractors to probe competitor chatbots to see how they would respond to prompts from children that involved sex, suicide, racism, and eating disorders, according to a report. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors were involved in the project, which involved cataloging in a spreadsheet how the chatbots responded to the sensitive subjects.