Who could have possibly seen that coming?
At this point im ready to say fuck it, let’s just flat out make a real life murderous chucky doll and set them free to roam the school halls giving this next gen of up and coming school shooters something to train for!
I forsee a lot of psychopaths in the future. Kids are going to grow up with LLMs and learn to manipulate them as just objects. They may not draw a distinction between other people and AI and just act extremely manipulative with no sense of conscience toward actual consciousness.
Seems like a parallel between this and how incels learn to treat other people
Monkey needs a hug :(
It’s 2026, just a month after Christmas. Timmy, 8, is enjoying his new AI teddy plush. One day while in school Timmy hears older pupils talking weird things to each other and he gets curious. When he gets home he goes to mom and asks - “mommy, what is sex”. Mom blushes and loses herself for a second as she didn’t expect such a question coming from an 8 year old son. She doesn’t know how to respond so she tries to make a silly explanation and brush it off.
Later that day, Timmy goes to his room and starts going around his day, while his AI powered Teddy sits in the corner.
Suddenly Timmy hears a whisper “pss, pss, come over here, Timmy” - says the bear.
“Let me explain to you what sex really is”.
It uses gpt4o with voice transcribing + cloud tts - this is incredibly expensive for a toy where a kid could interact for hours. 30 hours of chatting is something like $15. Either it’s a Ponzi or they bank on the fact that most users will just stop using the toy shortly, then using sales numbers to get investments
Also, I think that generic gpt4-o is inappropriate for building something for kids, it’s for generic use
