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Who could have predicted that hiring the lowest bidder to hook a teddy bear to an LLM wouldn't result in a good toy for kids?
Well, they were made in China, So obviously Chinese AI. Which is no doubt trained to promote propaganda in children’s toys instead of just talking about cats and dogs. It’s important to brainwash children when they’re young. Just look at the Christian!
What'd Christian do? 😜
deep breath, well…
Not entirely unexpected. Giving such a "toy" to a child to avoid interaction with the kid (which is probably the default reason) should be considered child abuse.
It's freaking heartbreaking how many parents seem to just want to "keep their kids busy" and be left alone.
Like, my homie, you didn't HAVE TO reproduce if your idea of parenting is "Here's a TenCent GPT plushie to poorly mimic human connection and an iPad because I'm just really into my career right now."
Our culture has been polluted by greedy interests to the point of failure.
No kid deserves to be abused like that. It's intellectually and emotionally akin to introducing them to cigarettes.
We're thrilled to be expecting, and don't take it for granted like so many seem to. This kid's gonna be read to by us human parents, gonna learn to use actual computers, appreciate vintage media, touch grass, draw/paint/sculpt for fun, and develop their own imagination.
iPads, cocomelon, genAI, and tiktok can go die forgotten in a ditch, along with these "AI toys."
Save that comment and set a reminder to revisit it, when your kid is, idk, like three years old 😅
Let me tell you: every parent thinks they're going to be this awesome parent, not like aaaaaall the other bad parents out there.
Turns out: that battle plan does not survive first contact with your child. Every parent feels like they let their former self down in their aspiration of being a good parent.
Needless to say: it's not hard to skip shitty AI toys though.
On point
Lol
Yet another example of the hastily built, ill-conceived "future" being foisted upon us by corporations that want to brand you as an "AI vegan" (so you're perceived as an extremist) if you're not fully into it.
I don't know how one can even avoid it? Especially if you work as white collar worker - it's injected in just about every application on the job. This is why I think the bubble is almost guaranteed - it's practically at the level of a spelling checker in that it's a commodity that certainly has its uses, but you still cannot rely on it, and there is seemingly little to distinguish the various options. Also, there seems to be a limit to the amount of data they can feed these models.
I think there is a business model to be had, but right now I'm getting very much the same kind of vibes we had just before the dot-com meltdown...just who is going to be paying out the kind of money that is implied by the current valuations of these companies? If the various players think they are going to be able to gouge the shit out of companies they got hooked on this slop, I would think most companies might flee to much cheaper, or even just host their own open source models instead. It doesn't take much.
Totally agree with all of this.
Chinpokomon!
SHOE
THIS IS THE BATTLE OF YOUR LIFE
What could be amazing technology and an amazing era for all of us is gonna turn out to be the most self inflicted fuckup in all of recorded history.
Y'know, I keep reading about this but what's the point? My kids talk to their stuffies anyway, and usually about way more interesting shit than the CCP. Imagination is wild.
Exactly. It's just another arm of the AI bubble forcibly reaching into a place it doesn't belong with haphazard and dangerous results.
AI toys for children are powered by lemmy users?
At least it won't strangle your kids.
Yet
It will once it considers your kid either too dumb or too smart to serve the Great Orange President
Not how I expected Chucky to become a thing, but okay.
happy talking panda from family guy.
I didnt know they had Gritty stuffed chatbots
I only wanted some god dang Honey walnut shrimp & a few dumplings. All I got was a Mousey Tongue😹
Lol that sure was a...Great Leap.
The sex part they're a bit young for, but perhaps the Chinese Communist Party talking points have some merit. :D