Human workers are reviewing prompts and images sent to Microsoft Copilot.

That’s according to a report from404 Media, which viewed internal messages from contractors who describe seeing disturbing requests and potentially illegal images: Some of the Copilot contractors complained in the private forum about accepting “tasks” that they unknowingly contained explicit unsafe or even potentially illegal images. “I just came across an image set that consisted of eight upskirt photos,” the contractor wrote, while asking for superiors to add an unsafe content flag to the task. On the same thread, another contractor said they had seen images of “some sort of animal sacrifice.” A free daily digest of the news that matters most.