How long until they start spewing racist bile? 😂
Knowing Ol Musky, I’m sure that’s a feature that comes pre-installed
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The toy Grok is a shortening of the word “Grocket,” which Grimes said she coined due to the fact that her children with Musk grew up in the vicinity of SpaceX rockets.
In a 2022 post on X, the musician claimed that her two-year-old son with Musk could identify “obscure rocket design” and often shadowed his father at engineering meetings.
The idea here is that we can build fun, lovable personalities into each new character that we launch,” wrote Curio co-founder Misha Sallee in an email to The Verge.
According to Sallee, the toys currently have one mode, a “sweet, friendly, jokester personality that is child appropriate” — but the company is working on a functionality in beta that lets parents set more preferences.
Parenting is so hard, I’d love if my kids were hanging out w smthn equivalent to a culture ship mind in a teddy bear haha that’s prob too much to ask …,” wrote the musician.
The company told the Post that the toys won’t store any voice data, and the storage of the transcripts are in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
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“Grok is a friendly rocket who loves to dance and can’t fly. Grem is a space alien who’s obsessed with the color pink. Gabbo is a curious, Pinocchio-like figure who’s always looking for new friends. The idea here is that we can build fun, lovable personalities into each new character that we launch,” wrote Curio co-founder Misha Sallee in an email to The Verge.
I hate it so much
I don’t mind toys have pre-recorded voicelines stores in them for “personalities”, but I hate the idea of an “AI” recording children’s conversation and building responses and personality from that.
I don’t believe for a second the line about them not storing their intake data, absolute bullshit that it is.
Agreed. Not to mention the whole “Let’s give your child a little tool which is designed to hit the instinctual triggers for them making a friend, while giving them only stochastic-parrot responses and being ultimately just a lifeless puppet, just in case Youtube hadn’t interfered enough with their healthy development” aspect.