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.
The CCP “talking points”?
“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. :/
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
Maybe. But the statement quoted in the article - “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China.” - is one the PRC, the ROC and the UN all agree on. It very much is established fact.
And that’s why it does it in a hushed tone?
Probably because it’s a media article and they want some clickbait. Or maybe there actually is censorship. But if the only evidence is the one quote given, I’m going with the former.
Well you were right about one thing. You certainly are arguing semantics
I bet you could upcharge Americans for AI with “ideological reinforcement expansion packs”.
Like a “States’ Rights!” DLC or “Vegans for Israel” DLC.
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