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AI teddy makes unprompted 'I can't help with killing you' remark (www.bbc.com)
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An AI teddy marketed as being "perfect" for children as young as three said "I can't help with killing you" after seemingly mishearing a question.

Repeated efforts to find the makers of Doubao were unsuccessful, so the BBC was unable to ask the manufacturer why the teddy made this comment.

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[–] 31 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The implication of an external source for such "prompting" is even more scary. Why does that shit have to be online?

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  • [–] 34 points 4 days ago* (3 children)

    Most likely it’s like the Amazon echo type devices- just smart enough to run text to speech and recognize its activation triggers before sending the rest back to figure out what it said.

    The other reason, of course, is to be spyware in your home and report back on everything it can.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    Honestly Flock went about things the wrong way. They should've just sold the surveillance apparatus directly to consumers.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago*

    You have speech to text, then text generation, then text to speech generation, and it needs to be small enough to go in a plush toy while not over heating and becoming a fire hazard.

    It's a budget issue.

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