Meta Contractors Test Rival Chatbots
On 29 June, Wired reported that hundreds of contractors working on a Meta project posed as children and prompted rival chatbots, including Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to discuss high-risk subjects. On 4 July, Wired repeated its finding that the contractors were testing how the chatbots responded when apparent children raised such topics. The available reporting does not specify the project’s findings or Meta’s intended use of them.
Assuming the report is factual, the impact is 0%. The work directly involves Meta’s contractors and tests Gemini and ChatGPT. The reporting identifies no resulting change to any chatbot, policy, or product.
Watch for Meta to explain the project’s purpose and how it used the results. Google or OpenAI may also address the reported tests. Further reporting on the prompts and chatbot responses would clarify what the exercise found.
Scoop: 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
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