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Meta contractors posed as teens to probe rival AI chatbots
Meta ran a project called Cannes where hundreds of contractors, managed by Covalen, created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors' chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, and logged replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026.
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