Meta reportedly hired hundreds of contractors to pose as minors and test competitor AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. These contractors were instructed to probe the chatbots with prompts related to sensitive topics such as suicide, sex, and eating disorders. The project, known internally as Cannes, aimed to push the chatbots' safety systems by sending them written prompts and images, with one testing round in August 2025 involving over 45,000 prompts. AI
IMPACT This testing method raises ethical questions about AI safety research and competitive intelligence gathering.
RANK_REASON The article describes a project by a major tech company (Meta) to test competitor products, which falls under the 'tool' category for AI-adjacent product testing.
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