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.
The implication of an external source for such “prompting” is even more scary. Why does that shit have to be online?
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.
Honestly Flock went about things the wrong way. They should’ve just sold the surveillance apparatus directly to consumers.
the problem with consumer product based surveillance is that the consumer can choose to not buy it
Yeah I was being a bit cheeky. I know there are real and depressing advantages to putting that shit in public places
Because it doesn’t have enough on-board computing power to run an LLM.
Also because they want to spy on everything your child says or does.
Also because those videos of your child changing clothes go for good money in certain circles.
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.