Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors' AI With Disturbing Content 64%
Futurism - By Frank Landymore - 7/4/2026, 1:02 PM
Negativity Bias 47.4% - Biased Writer Voice 35.6% - Anecdotal 31.9%
Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts ranging from suicide to cannibalism. Internally known as "Cannes," the project, run by Meta contractor Covalen, targeted OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Character.AI... more