Summary
WIRED reported Meta ran project “Cannes” through contractor Covalen, using contractors to pose as minors and send 45,000+ sensitive prompts to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI through at least April 2026. Meta defended it as safety testing; rivals said they were not informed.
Source Analysis
Primary/aggregator: THE DECODER citing WIRED, June 30, 2026.
PreScreening Notes
Score: 2 — Duplicate of an item already in the pipeline (pipeline/3-evaluated/2026-06-30-meta-cannes-competitor-chatbot-testing.md). Same source URL and story; stale re-ingest left in 1-incoming/ after prior prescreening. Rejected to prevent parallel tracking.