New reporting says Meta ran a secret program that paid hundreds of contractors, sometimes including people pretending to be kids and teens, to have disturbing conversations with its AI so it could be trained on them. Reuters, WSJ, and the Guardian are all running this today, and the UK data watchdog is already asking Meta for answers.
This is the kind of story that makes regulators move fast. If you build anything with AI in your products, the message is clear: safety testing done in secret is not going to cut it anymore.