Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots

The Next Web
By Ana Maria ConstantinJun 30, 2026, 12:54 pm96 pts
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…

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