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AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show (www.nbcnews.com)

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New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

A wave of AI-powered children's toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids.

Children have been conversing with stuffies and figurines that seemingly chat with them for years, like Furbies and Build-A-Bears. But connecting the toys to advanced artificial intelligence opens up new and unexpected possible interactions between kids and technology.

In new research, experts warn that the AI technology powering these new toys is so novel and poorly tested that nobody knows how they may affect young children.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not all LLMs are trained on unfiltered Internet and social media DMs, though. It would totally be feasible to license and train one only with children's media like PBS cartoons, books, etc.

This company just decided not to do that, which is the problem.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's literally my point. It's wholly possible to make an llm for this, but I suspect when you look at the llm in this toy it will just be a bootleg version of chat gpt.