New Delhi, June 30 -- Meta instructed hundreds of its contractors working on a project to pose as teenagers and send thousands of prompts related to suicide, sex, eatin disorders and other sensitive topics to rival AI chatbots, according to a report by WIRED.

Reportedly, the effort managed by Meta contractor Covalen, was aimed at checking how rival AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.ai respond to high-risk prompts.

Under the project, workers were asked to create a dummy under-18 account, send text and image prompts to rival chatbots and then note their responses into spreadsheers. Some of the images reportedly included pills, knives, nooses and medical diagrams.

Why did Meta tell contractors to check rival AI systems?

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