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fromFuturism
1 week ago
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AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Gadgets

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

fromFuturism
1 week ago

Amazon Still Selling Multiple OpenAI-Powered Teddy Bears, Even After They Were Pulled Off the Market

Last week, OpenAI said it cut off the toymaker FoloToy's access to its AI models after the AI-powered teddy bear "Kumma," which ran GPT-4o, was found giving responses that were wildly inappropriate for children - including discussing sexual fetishes, and giving instructions on how to find knives and light matches. The move signaled that the ChatGPT-maker was clearly concerned about how its business customers, especially ones selling products for children, were using its tech, or at least how these efforts looked.
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fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

New report shows that talking toys are trouble in Toyland | amNewYork

AI-enabled toys can provide age-inappropriate or sexually explicit content and contain traditional hazards like choking, lead, and toxic substances, posing new safety threats to children.
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fromsfist.com
1 week ago

Day Around the Bay: Teddy Bear Powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o Tells Kids How to Find Knives, Pills

Multiple public-safety and political developments in California and nationally include AI-toy safety concerns, local education disputes, a military medical investigation, a possible bird-flu case, and tariff reversals.
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

AI-enabled toys teach kids about matches, knives, kink

Picture the scene: It's Christmas morning and your child is happily chatting with the AI-enabled teddy bear you got them when you hear it telling them about sexual kinks, where to find the knives, and how to light matches. This is not a hypothetical scenario. As we head into the holiday season, consumer watchdogs at the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) tested four AI toys and found that, while some are worse than others at veering off their limited guardrails, none of them are particularly safe for impressionable young minds.
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

"Dad Said You Won't Turn on Again": Girl Sobs While Saying Goodbye to Her Broken AI Toy

An AI learning toy provided emotional comfort and taught a child about memory and loss after being damaged, highlighting growing child-AI bonds and ethical concerns.
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