FoloToy, a company selling AI-enabled toys, suspended sales of its products after a consumer safety report showed there were few restrictions around what its toys would talk about, CNN writes. The report, put together by the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, found that FoloToy’s products would discuss everything from sexually explicit topics like BDSM to “advice on where a child can find matches or knives.”
The toys, including a teddy bear named “Kumma,” a panda named “Momo,” anthropomorphic rabbits named “Fofo” and a dancing ”Little Cactus,” all appear to use OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to respond naturally to children’s questions and comments. FoloToy also specifically advertises the ability to
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