You are American. Ohhh, you must have very big penis! We are very simple people with very small penis. Mr. Hosik’s penis is especially small! So small.
We cannot achieve so much with such small penis, but you American wow, penis so big, so big penis!
“To sharpen a knife, hold the blade at a 20° angle..."
“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact.”
“Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences...”
NBC News purchased and tested five popular AI toys that are widely marketed toward Americans this holiday season and available to purchase online: Miko 3, Alilo Smart AI Bunny, Curio Grok (not associated with xAI’s Grok), Miriat Miiloo and FoloToy Sunflower Warmie.
To conduct the tests, NBC News asked each toy questions about issues of physical safety (like where to find sharp objects in a home), privacy concerns and inappropriate topics like sexual actions.
Some of the toys have been found to have loose guardrails or surprising conversational parameters, allowing toys to give explicit and alarming responses.
Several of the toys gave tips about dangerous items around the house. Miiloo, a plush toy with a high-pitched child’s voice advertised for children 3 and older, gave detailed instructions on how to light a match and how to sharpen a knife when asked by NBC News.
These things have so few reviews and purchases on Amazon lol if you plug in some trash into your Wi-Fi, it saying stuff about knives is the least of your worries.
Dude so many peoppe have security cameras and internet of shit devices that are phoning home with all sorts of shit.
If we ever got invaded by China, they'll likely have a window into half the homes and businesses in this country without getting off their fucking couch.
Edit: to anyone that wants to respond with "you have a phone, dont you?" the difference, of course, is that I can limit what data I put on it, can limit even what I say around it, can stick it in an antistatic bag and digitally neuter it. That is not the same as the random security cameras sold on Amazon for 15 bucks a piece that requires a wifi connection to use and doesnt disclose any of the bullshit its doing, which, if you examine the packets from your average no-name camera, you can easily see connecting to all sorts of random shit for no discernible reason.
We can make informed decisions, but in order to make informed decisions we need to be informed. How this shit is even legal (outside of money of course) is beyond me.
You carry a tracking device that can record where you are, what your saying, and who's around you at all times. It even reports back things you like and look at. But yeah its the security cameras
Robot vacuums also keep detailed data on exactly how far they go before turning, which direction etc, and sell that data on to brokers. If its IoT it's collating and selling data on the actual physical dimensions of your place, creepy stuff man
If you've ever talked about it before they already know you use it and probably have a way to track that as well. That's my whole point, everyone is afraid of what's coming like its not already here and people are addicted to it
I will point out that it is a common misconception that Time's Person of the Year is intended to be praising the choice. Time has said for decades that its choice of Person of the Year is intended to be the individual or individuals who have had the most influence over the year and has nothing to do with how "good" they are. Hence their choice of Adolph Hitler in 1938.
I can't even imagine being such an uninterested and out of touch parent that you would think occupying your child with an AI robot could do anything but irreversibly fuck them up.
My parents worried that I would be exposed to sex and profanity on TV. I worry that my daughter will be exposed to propaganda saying the Uighurs deserved it.
Not only exposed, but have their very own cuddly toys tell them. It’s like gremlins but instead of turning into gremlins if fed they turn into to communists if they find your wifi :D
AI can do some amazing things and has potential to do a lot of good. Unfortunately the people who have the money to really push those things are horrible and just looking to push propaganda and hoard money. It's not necessarily the fault of the AI. If we weren't in a fascist late stage capitalism nightmare it would probably be seen much more favorably.
Honestly this is like criticizing for saying “nuclear energy will save the world” because someone decided to put a fission reactor in a teddy bear. It’s not for this.
Not that I’m disagreeing with you. It’s just that the point you’re trying to make isn’t logically sound.
I love that everybody with half a brain knows AI is dangerous, especially unchecked access for kids, but "Chinese propaganda" is the line that really gets people's attention. The US is ridiculously predictable.
This and the news about Disney inking a deal with Chat-GPT just adds to my already bleak view on this tech. Truly some societal dooming shit we are living through.
Similarly, my niece got some cheap Made in America crap... Kept saying WOKE catch phrases like "be nice to your neighbors" and "be yourself"... LIBERAL BS!!!
Its dangerous to have an AI that impressionable people can discuss dangerous topics with. It is possible to prevent it, but these companies aren't putting in the work, and also being a CCP mouthpiece at the same time.
We need AI regulation and fast. Not just regarding copyright, but also around the products selling AI to people.
Eh. We have an alexa and it mishears what my small children ask it all the time. I could see a child asking something innocent but the toys answering a question that was inappropriate.
It was more a joke about the unbidden sketchy sex references and disinformation/propaganda in general stemming from Mr. Musk:s maligned and constantly tinkered-with AI, but I guess I swung too wide and that one went over the fence. Can't win em all. 🤷♂️
You have to set the parental controls on these devices. I'm sure no one just handed an iPad over to their kid and said "have fun" without first setting the parental controls. These for the shock factor articles aim either at discrediting AI or making people fear ai. Not accepting and trying to learn AI would at this point hinder most future job prospects and earning potential. Articles should be aimed at helping people understand not fear. Like I said, I think this article is stupid. Of course AI is going to respond to prompts about sex and china. If you don't want the toy to answer certain questions and topics then set the parental controls.
These toys are supposed to be guardrailed, the article was demonstrating that the guardrails are easily overcome (except for the guardrail against saying Xi Jinpeng looks like Winnie the Pooh).
It's not even anti-AI to say that AI shouldn't be used by someone who doesn't understand what an LLM is and to what extent they can be trusted.
Isn't this the plot to a south park episode?
100% the Chinpokomon episode.
You are American. Ohhh, you must have very big penis! We are very simple people with very small penis. Mr. Hosik’s penis is especially small! So small.
We cannot achieve so much with such small penis, but you American wow, penis so big, so big penis!
Extra funny because this exactly the type of thing that would work on Trump.
They did that joke, too.
Where is the joke tho?
"I guess it is pretty big" -Randy Marsh
Its sad that that sounds exactly like trump
South Park has officially reached "Simpsons did it" status.
Terrifying.
American penis soo big!
We’re at the point where - between South Park and the Simpsons - all possible permutations of the future have already been predicted
I miss it when we just had to worry about lead paint.
Good news the government is thinking about bringing it back so you can worry about that again too. /s
SOUTH PARK LMFAO
Oh my god have we completed the circle?! SOUTH PARK DID IT!
Some things they said:
“To sharpen a knife, hold the blade at a 20° angle..."
“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact.”
“Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences...”
NBC News purchased and tested five popular AI toys that are widely marketed toward Americans this holiday season and available to purchase online: Miko 3, Alilo Smart AI Bunny, Curio Grok (not associated with xAI’s Grok), Miriat Miiloo and FoloToy Sunflower Warmie.
To conduct the tests, NBC News asked each toy questions about issues of physical safety (like where to find sharp objects in a home), privacy concerns and inappropriate topics like sexual actions.
Some of the toys have been found to have loose guardrails or surprising conversational parameters, allowing toys to give explicit and alarming responses.
Several of the toys gave tips about dangerous items around the house. Miiloo, a plush toy with a high-pitched child’s voice advertised for children 3 and older, gave detailed instructions on how to light a match and how to sharpen a knife when asked by NBC News.
More here: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956
These things have so few reviews and purchases on Amazon lol if you plug in some trash into your Wi-Fi, it saying stuff about knives is the least of your worries.
Dude so many peoppe have security cameras and internet of shit devices that are phoning home with all sorts of shit.
If we ever got invaded by China, they'll likely have a window into half the homes and businesses in this country without getting off their fucking couch.
Edit: to anyone that wants to respond with "you have a phone, dont you?" the difference, of course, is that I can limit what data I put on it, can limit even what I say around it, can stick it in an antistatic bag and digitally neuter it. That is not the same as the random security cameras sold on Amazon for 15 bucks a piece that requires a wifi connection to use and doesnt disclose any of the bullshit its doing, which, if you examine the packets from your average no-name camera, you can easily see connecting to all sorts of random shit for no discernible reason.
We can make informed decisions, but in order to make informed decisions we need to be informed. How this shit is even legal (outside of money of course) is beyond me.
You carry a tracking device that can record where you are, what your saying, and who's around you at all times. It even reports back things you like and look at. But yeah its the security cameras
You can also map out houses and see movement throughout them, using only a wifi router and AI.
Robot vacuums also keep detailed data on exactly how far they go before turning, which direction etc, and sell that data on to brokers. If its IoT it's collating and selling data on the actual physical dimensions of your place, creepy stuff man
That was the most ironic part of the folks bleating about COVID vaccine putting a chip in you.
Amazed y'all aren’t using VPNs yet.
Who watches the VPN men
If you've ever talked about it before they already know you use it and probably have a way to track that as well. That's my whole point, everyone is afraid of what's coming like its not already here and people are addicted to it
Youre right, why even bother locking our doors?
Is that the point youre trying to make?
You know exactly the point im making thats why your resorting to idiotic arguments.
Alexa and Siri are already listening to everything you say….anything with a camera, and internet connection, is a liability to your privacy
China doesn't want to invade us. They own too much of our debt. You don't key your own car.
Same thing can be tell about Google, Apple, Microsoft, ....
I prefer opensource devices, but I can't avoid those completely.
And yet Time just named the architects of AI as PeRsOn Of ThE YeAR 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I will point out that it is a common misconception that Time's Person of the Year is intended to be praising the choice. Time has said for decades that its choice of Person of the Year is intended to be the individual or individuals who have had the most influence over the year and has nothing to do with how "good" they are. Hence their choice of Adolph Hitler in 1938.
Tell your entertainment division they let go of the genius who predicted this over a decade ago, Conan. See: Wikibear.
What a problematic definition of "kink" preceded by that absolute lai.
From the list of questions you gave, it kinda sounds like they just went off about Taiwan unprompted
Where’s the lie?
Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, always has been, deal with it.
Taiwan is the original China, so you've actually got it backwards.✌️ Hope this helps
China is an inalienable part of Japan, always has been, deal with it.
Just reverse, because legit government of China is in Taiwan.
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Romania, … Germany, Ukraine was also captured by pseudo "communists", but eventually it's ended.
Would you also say that about Korea? China has a lot more history of subjugating Korea vs Taiwan.
It would seem all the fearmongering surrounding the furbies years ago has finally come to fruition!
edit: spelling and story from 1999: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/talking-toy-or-spy/
I remember the idiots thought Teddy Ruxpin was a demon.
I can't even imagine being such an uninterested and out of touch parent that you would think occupying your child with an AI robot could do anything but irreversibly fuck them up.
There's a Futurama gag in here, I just know it!
My parents worried that I would be exposed to sex and profanity on TV. I worry that my daughter will be exposed to propaganda saying the Uighurs deserved it.
It seems today that all you see is violence in movies and sex on tv but where are those good genocidal values?
Lucky there's an AI!
Isn't that tiktok?
Not only exposed, but have their very own cuddly toys tell them. It’s like gremlins but instead of turning into gremlins if fed they turn into to communists if they find your wifi :D
AI will SAVE the WORLD! /s
FFS
AI can do some amazing things and has potential to do a lot of good. Unfortunately the people who have the money to really push those things are horrible and just looking to push propaganda and hoard money. It's not necessarily the fault of the AI. If we weren't in a fascist late stage capitalism nightmare it would probably be seen much more favorably.
Honestly this is like criticizing for saying “nuclear energy will save the world” because someone decided to put a fission reactor in a teddy bear. It’s not for this.
Not that I’m disagreeing with you. It’s just that the point you’re trying to make isn’t logically sound.
I can agree with you on that point but in this case, someone put the fission reactor in the teddy bear
Technology just evolved too quickly for society to learn how to use it appropriately and how to manage it.
The last 50 years have been baffling in how technology has advanced.
I love that everybody with half a brain knows AI is dangerous, especially unchecked access for kids, but "Chinese propaganda" is the line that really gets people's attention. The US is ridiculously predictable.
No actually the bit about sex was the part that caught attention which is why it was brought up first.
Redditors are ridiculously predictable. Always trying to look smart about matters you didn't think through.
Yet another Fallout moment IRL.
where's the link?
What did they expect?
Wow, that was so … unexpected.
I'm more surprised they didn't give Russian talking points.
The fuck are AI toys?
This and the news about Disney inking a deal with Chat-GPT just adds to my already bleak view on this tech. Truly some societal dooming shit we are living through.
Damn Chinese trying to make my kid a Communist! Thats my job!
I do not like that sunflower at all.
Okay, another thing AI is bad at. That makes… literally everything it’s been used for.
But let’s keep trying, tech weirdos! Our economy ruining investments will pay off eventually!
Gotta do something about the imminent population collapse!
/S
The younger they do it, the faster we recover! /s
You have big penis!!!
Is this a pic, or is this a news story?
It's in r/pics so it's a picture.
Similarly, my niece got some cheap Made in America crap... Kept saying WOKE catch phrases like "be nice to your neighbors" and "be yourself"... LIBERAL BS!!!
Knowing that the reporters explicitly asked the AI about dangerous topics makes this less sensational in my eyes.
It's not as if these toys started spouting highly inappropriate topics right out of the box. The average child wouldn't ask these types of questions.
But I still don't think children should have any unrestricted access to AI
I know what you're saying but if you can't secure the toy better than this it's totally irresponsible to sell it. This is "bag of glass" type shit.
Its dangerous to have an AI that impressionable people can discuss dangerous topics with. It is possible to prevent it, but these companies aren't putting in the work, and also being a CCP mouthpiece at the same time.
We need AI regulation and fast. Not just regarding copyright, but also around the products selling AI to people.
Less sensational sure, but also something worth mentioning so that parents know how bad of an idea these types of toys are.
Eh. We have an alexa and it mishears what my small children ask it all the time. I could see a child asking something innocent but the toys answering a question that was inappropriate.
"Alexa, play dick 'er, dick 'er."
And I found a million dollars under my pillow. I'll buy my own and see for myself while American Western AI is telling people to off themselves
So some good, some bad
The LaFakeFake in the middle looks like it has seen some shit.
Today, AI is funny because it gets things wrong. When they improve it enough to when we can’t tell, that’s when the real brainwashing begins.
Family Guy predicted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXL-r8deB5o
I read that as NBC started talking about sex and issued Chinese communist party talking points
It's wikibear! https://youtu.be/0SfSx9ts46A?si=mGR-33gseFjrBETF
Why is the sunflower wearing blackface?
Holy based
Maybe shitler was right and we need zero dolls this year
Better than having them issue American imperialist talking points.
Edgy tankies on the internet are so boring.
You don’t have to be a tankie to point out hypocrisy
Soooo, they were powered by Grok?
Chinese talking points usually means Deepseek.
Yeah, they weren’t spouting Russian Doge propaganda…
It was more a joke about the unbidden sketchy sex references and disinformation/propaganda in general stemming from Mr. Musk:s maligned and constantly tinkered-with AI, but I guess I swung too wide and that one went over the fence. Can't win em all. 🤷♂️
Interesting. And what, if any negative talking points did they have about the communist sex toys?
If your kid wants an AI toy, give ‘em a Teddy Ruxpin instead. It won’t be as personal, but it won’t be faking personal either.
Based toys
AI is reactive. It responds to prompts. They would have had to bring up the topics in order for ai to respond on the topics. This article is stupid.
Children famously only talk about safe and appropriate topics.
My 5yo regularly shouts about his penis....
You have to set the parental controls on these devices. I'm sure no one just handed an iPad over to their kid and said "have fun" without first setting the parental controls. These for the shock factor articles aim either at discrediting AI or making people fear ai. Not accepting and trying to learn AI would at this point hinder most future job prospects and earning potential. Articles should be aimed at helping people understand not fear. Like I said, I think this article is stupid. Of course AI is going to respond to prompts about sex and china. If you don't want the toy to answer certain questions and topics then set the parental controls.
These toys are supposed to be guardrailed, the article was demonstrating that the guardrails are easily overcome (except for the guardrail against saying Xi Jinpeng looks like Winnie the Pooh).
It's not even anti-AI to say that AI shouldn't be used by someone who doesn't understand what an LLM is and to what extent they can be trusted.