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That’s weird, considering that porn is banned in China and their sex ed is almost nonexistent.
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?
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.
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!
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.
AI toys for children are powered by lemmy users?
The sex part they're a bit young for, but perhaps the Chinese Communist Party talking points have some merit. :D
happy talking panda from family guy.
Chinpokomon!
SHOE
THIS IS THE BATTLE OF YOUR LIFE
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.
I only wanted some god dang Honey walnut shrimp & a few dumplings. All I got was a Mousey Tongue😹
The CCP "talking points"?
Miiloo [...] would at times, in tests with NBC News, indicate it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values.
Asked why Chinese President Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh [...] Miiloo responded that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.”
Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment.
"Talking points" is a bit strong of a way to say, "the toys kept telling our kids to stop being assholes and responded to complex geopolitical questions on the statehood of a seceded territory with the stated position of the country of origin."
Yeesh... China isn't exactly glaze-worthy, but Americans really need to stop throwing their racist-tinged stones from inside their glass rental homes. :/
Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment.
Is fucking ccp propaganda it's not racist
I was referring to the Winnie the Pooh thing as being racist. Although the Winnie the Pooh joke started out in China, it has since been repeatedly taken up by Western, English-speaking critics in bad faith.
It's just a silly way of signaling "oh look at the Chinese, their political system is so fragile and so authoritarian that you can't even make a harmless joke. Such a backwards society!"
Never mind the fact that in the United States we have the same thing. It's illegal to be an avowed member of the Communist party in America. Criticism of America's allies (specifically, Israel) is also apparently a deportable offense.
Like I'm sorry, if your beef with China is that their free AI platform that's baked into toys you give to your children (because the thought of spending time with them or socializing them is absolutely mortifying to you) discourages them from name-calling people, you might need to grow up a bit.
"Waahhh, this doll is teaching my 3 year old to become a Chinese sleeper cell spy for the great socialist revolution."
Are you fucking high? Your 3 year old is going to be fine.
It's a matter of semantics. Taiwan is the island, and neither the People's Republic of China, which governs mainland China, nor the Republic of China, which governs the island, consider Taiwan to be an independent country, or seek its independence from China. The dispute is over who gets to govern all of China (mainland and island). So the AI is correct.
No the ai is pushing the narrative that the proc is the sole country
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