Human Contractors Are Reviewing Copilot Prompts, and a Lot of You Are Creeps
“Trust your intuition—when you glance at the two edited images side by side, which one immediately feels like the better edit? Your gut reaction as a human viewer matters,” reads Microsoft's instruction to contractors.That might sound straightforward enough, but some of the requests have been jarring for the contractors reviewing them, 404 says. For example, they've seen requests to make foot fetish images of child cartoon characters, shorten a real woman’s skirt, and put people in sexual positions.
- ▪“Trust your intuition—when you glance at the two edited images side by side, which one immediately feels like the better edit?
- ▪Your gut reaction as a human viewer matters,” reads Microsoft's instruction to contractors.That might sound straightforward enough, but some of the requests have been jarring for the contractors reviewing them, 404 says.
- ▪For example, they've seen requests to make foot fetish images of child cartoon characters, shorten a real woman’s skirt, and put people in sexual positions.
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Microsoft has hired hundreds of human contractors to read your Copilot prompts and review their output, even if they involve sensitive images, according to 404 Media,At times, these prompts include requests to generate sexual imagery, and Microsoft has asked contractors to use their judgment to select the Copilot-generated image that best aligns with those requests. “Trust your intuition—when you glance at the two edited images side by side, which one immediately feels like the better edit? Your gut reaction as a human viewer matters,” reads Microsoft's instruction to contractors.That might sound straightforward enough, but some of the requests have been jarring for the contractors reviewing them, 404 says.
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