About this episode

Emily Laird discusses Meta's controversial practices involving contractors posing as children to test rival chatbots.

Meta paid contractors to pose as children, flood rival chatbots with prompts about suicide, eating disorders, and abuse, then log every response in spreadsheets. The company calls it "industry-standard safety benchmarking," but the operation had no consent, no disclosure, and no shared findings: the four things that make red teaming legitimate. Host Emily Laird walks through the Wired investigation, the 45,000-prompt testing rounds, and the court testimony showing what Meta knew about its own failure rates while it was busy documenting everyone else's. This is the difference between a shield and a sword, and the paperwork says sword.──────────── 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird

People in this episode

Host: Emily Laird

Topics covered

• Meta
• AI safety
• chatbots
• ethical concerns
• red teaming
• investigation

Keywords

• Meta
• AI
• chatbots
• safety benchmarking
• red teaming
• investigation
• ethical issues

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Organizations: Meta, Wired

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