--- title: Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored,... description: Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft Copilot review users' uploaded photos and prompts, with faces uncensored, according to internal documents obtained... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/copilot-users-photos-reach-human-reviewers-uncensored-404-media-reports-rn9r4rtmb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored, 404 Media reports | daily.dev og:description: Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft Copilot review users' uploaded photos and prompts, with faces uncensored, according to internal documents obtained... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/copilot-users-photos-reach-human-reviewers-uncensored-404-media-reports-rn9r4rtmb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rn9r4RtMb.png og:image:alt: Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored, 404 Media reports og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored, 404 Media reports **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft Copilot review users' uploaded photos and prompts, with faces uncensored, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. Contractors report many prompts are sexual in nature, including requests to shorten skirts, enlarge breasts, or create suggestive images, alongside upskirt photos and pro-anorexia content. Reviewers are instructed to rate output quality, not flag harmful content, though some flag it anyway. Microsoft pointed to its terms of use covering customer data usage; Prolific, one contracting firm involved, did not comment. The report follows a similar 404 Media finding that OpenAI contractors read real ChatGPT conversations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Do human contractors see the actual photos and prompts users submit to Microsoft Copilot? Yes, contractors hired to rate Copilot's image-editing quality see users' original uploaded photos, their text prompts, and two AI-generated edits, with faces left uncensored. Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show contractors are instructed to judge output quality rather than flag harmful content, though many prompts turn out to be sexual and some images include upskirt shots or pro-anorexia material. _Anyone weighing how AI tools handle uploaded photos can follow ongoing privacy reporting like this on daily.dev._ ### Which company provides the human contractors who review Microsoft Copilot content? Prolific is named as at least one company supplying contractors who review Copilot prompts and photos, according to internal documents reported by 404 Media. Prolific did not respond to a request for comment, and Microsoft responded by pointing to its terms of use, which state customer data is used to improve products and enforce its code of conduct. _Developers tracking how AI vendors handle user data can follow this kind of reporting on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use](https://daily.dev/posts/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-according-to-microsoft-s-terms-of-use-mnlajya5k) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations](https://daily.dev/posts/hundreds-of-contractors-are-reportedly-reading-real-chatgpt-conversations-yekyk39yt) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Ask Hackaday: Using CoPilot? 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