Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
This piece contains references to eating disorders. If you or someone you know needs help, support is available.Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded, including upskirt photos or putting women into sexual positions. In reality, a workforce of at least hundreds of human reviewers are sometimes looking at that prompt and whatever images they upload.
- ▪This piece contains references to eating disorders.
- ▪If you or someone you know needs help, support is available.Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded
- ▪In reality, a workforce of at least hundreds of human reviewers are sometimes looking at that prompt and whatever images they upload.
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This piece contains references to eating disorders. If you or someone you know needs help, support is available.Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images that users have uploaded, including upskirt photos or putting women into sexual positions. These contractors are then asked to review whether the generated image successfully fulfilled the prompt — such as, did the image generator make the woman’s AI-enlarged breasts big enough.When a Copilot user uploads a picture of themselves or someone else, they probably expect that image to remain private between just them and the AI tool.
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