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‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 days ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over ...

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It’s Grem, an AI-powered stuffed alien toy that the musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio. Designed for kids aged three and over and built with OpenAI’s technology, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys.

Burn it with fire.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 16 points 3 days ago

It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys.

They say it's healthier, what incentive would they have to mislead?!

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh god. Grimes. You don't have a kid with Elon Musk and have a brain that isn't rotted. This sounds like one the kind of ideas she'd hear and fund. I'm not surprised.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A kid. Yes. A. Kid.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does she have multiple with him?!

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought she had at least three?

  • X Æ A-Xii
  • Exa Dark Sideræl
  • Techno Mechanicus
[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jesus. I only ever hear about X. I really hope you are trolling and those other names are made up. But I doubt it.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 days ago

I wish, for the sake of the children, that I were actually trolling. 😢