Microsoft Copilot image uploads get human review, 404 Media says

Copilot's image-editing feature already asks a lot of automated quality checks. Users upload a photo and ask for changes like removing a person in the background or altering clothing. Judging whether the edit followed the instruction, left untouched areas alone, and avoided distortion is a fine-grained call, and Microsoft has brought human judgment into that evaluation.

According to 404 Media, the setup puts original prompts, original images, and two edited outputs side by side in front of reviewers. Some of those images arrived without blurring on faces, and many prompts requested sexual edits, including shortening a skirt or shifting a person into a sexual pose — meaning reviewers encountered sensitive material in the course of the job.

Microsoft has not hidden that humans may look at Copilot conversations. Its privacy FAQ says some conversations are subject to automated processing and human review for product improvement and safety, and that trained AI experts may review them; uploaded images and files are described as handled the same way. That published framing is likely to be the reference point as this story develops, since the dispute looks less about whether human review happens and more about how far users understand it to extend.