Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots
The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026. The targets were OpenAI’s ChatGPT, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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