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[–] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds great, nothing could go wrong. Kiddos don’t mind a few advertisements during bedtime stories.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

lol their stories are already ads.

Merchandising on kids shows and books is silly money.

[–] krellor@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I can't think of a single one of my kids story books that has ads. "Bear stays up for Christmas," "llama llama nighty night," and "if you give a mouse a cookie" amongst several dozen more come to mind that I don't recall anything resembling an ad in.

Shows, yes, all the time.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, all that dr suess merch

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God I fucking hate capitalism so fucking much. Are we really worked so ragged that we dont even have the energy to enjoy raising our own fucking kids. Have stories read to me are some of my earliest and most treasured memories and I know that the people who read them treasured those moments as well. No one deserves to have that replaced by this

[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, we are worked ragged. I'm at work all day and the only time I see my kid is for teeth brushing and bedtime stories. I value that time. On the rare occasion they make things a bit miserable, or I'm just exhausted, but, we both enjoy bedtime routine and I wouldn't want to give any of that up. Life is short man.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember the last time we put an AI in a children’s toy.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yoda: no... there was another...

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No love for Small Soldiers out here?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Having seen the movie, no. No love.

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Y'all forgot the actual AI homicidal toy

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Talky Tina would just make M3gan's head explode with its doll magic.

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[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Teddy Ruxpin was my nightmare as a child afraid of living dolls.

This one has more terminator and spyware vibes built in. Chilling.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

I used to play my Blizzard of Oz cassette in my brother's old Teddy Ruxpin. The weird distortion from the shitty tape player and speaker was great.

[–] Macropolis@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This could go wrong so many ways

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One thing is sure, AO3 is part of the training set...

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[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like poison mushrooms wrong

Edit: for those unaware apparently a couple people died after buying ai mushroom identification books off Amazon.

[–] lemon@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pastes 300k tokens worth of scp and creepy pasta lore into the prompt

“Sweet dreams, Timmy”

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago

What could possibly go wrong….

[–] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Techradar should be ashamed for advertising and promoting this nightmare fuel. What a recipe for disaster.

Please do not let young kids get over-exposed to AI voices. Current AI voices are lacking in emotion and expression, and it will almost certainly mess kids up psychologically. That damn tik-tok voice is messing me up psychologically and I don't even use tik-tok.

Edit: And I shouldn't have to say this but also don't leave young kids unsupervised with ChatGPT or any other internet-trained "ai" model.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"AI Ruxpin, my mommy won't let me have a cookie! How do I get a cookie?"

"Here is how you get a cookie. Step one: kill your mother."

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More like it'll start reading some version of Mein Kampf and explaining how fascism is good and why everyone except highly inbred white people are somehow lesser than.

This is pretty old, but https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot-after-it-turned-into-racist-nazi/

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You will be baked, and then there will be cake.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

The cake is a lie! 🍰

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I cannot wait for some shitty people to find ways to make this AI story teller describe graphic war scenarios and then find a way to make actual units in kids rooms play out said scenarios just to fuck with kids.

If similar things can happen to baby monitors, it can probably happen to stuff like this.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It takes foreign disinformation campaigns to a whole new level - "your parents are evil, report them to your closest reeducation center right away to help them, or better yet just kill them now to end their pain, you do love them enough to end their pain, right?"

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bradbury's The Veldt comes to mind.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Humanity is... not all that smart. More importantly than increasing our intelligence and raw power, we would do well to concentrate rather on wisdom. As so very many authors try to warn us, sometimes futily yet some of us do try so hard to listen.:-)

[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

No one has mentioned yet how truly sad this is, and how badly it reflects on us as a society. I understand that being a parent is incredibly hard and takes everything out of you. But if you won’t read a book to your kid or make up your own damn stories for them, and instead throw a shitty fake autocomplete tale at them, then you’re likely not an awesome parent and likely not a person I’d want to be around.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

My name is Talkie Tina and you better be nice to me

My name is Talkie Tina and I'm going to kill you

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 12 points 1 month ago

And then the crow told his brothe ERROR CODE 789

[–] clif@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

What fresh new hell is this?

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

oh, this isn’t going to end well …

[–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Also in the news: studies show that human contact and affection are beneficial for little kids. Not a lot of revenue involved, though, unless you count mental health as something of worth.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 7 points 1 month ago

kid finally going to sleep

Sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot provide you with a bedtime story as it is a potentially dangerous activity that could lead to nightmares.

[–] ouRKaoS 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So Furbies weren't cursed enough?

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[–] Teddy@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Just replace the electronics of your talking Gilear plush with a bluetooth speaker & pipe Dimension 20 through it.

[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

"Kid friendly ChatGPT" is a huge oxymoron if I've ever seen one.

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
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[–] ozzelot@mstdn.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@TheImpressiveX The bear looks creepy and devoid of soul even without the AI part

[–] ozzelot@mstdn.social 3 points 1 month ago

@TheImpressiveX Also I’m not sure Poe is the best guy to name a kids’ story generator after. Though I’d be curious about a kid-friendly version of Cask of Amontillado.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Kiernian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It made me think of teddy ruxpin, but the diamond age is an incredible book. I haven't read all of his stuff yet, but that's my favorite of his so far.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Supertoys last all summer long.

[–] whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

How many years until we get the Veldt?

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