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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

ID: 7c893b0c-ab33-5815-b9ca-b11ad120a58b

STIX ID: report--7c893b0c-ab33-5815-b9ca-b11ad120a58b

Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2026-06-29

Date Updated: 2026-07-02

Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Joel Khalili

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Executive summary: The article reports that hundreds of contractors working for a Meta contractor were instructed to pose as minors and submit tens of thousands of prompts and images to rival chatbots (OpenAI, Google, Character.AI) to probe responses to suicide, sex, eating disorders and other sensitive scenarios; spreadsheets reviewed by the reporter contained dummy account details, thousands of prompts, and examples of disturbing test content.

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