• krellor@fedia.io
        12·
        3 months ago

        I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but I can’t think of a single one of my kids story books that has ads. “Bear stays up for Christmas,” “llama llama nighty night,” and “if you give a mouse a cookie” amongst several dozen more come to mind that I don’t recall anything resembling an ad in.

        Shows, yes, all the time.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    372·
    3 months ago

    God I fucking hate capitalism so fucking much. Are we really worked so ragged that we dont even have the energy to enjoy raising our own fucking kids. Have stories read to me are some of my earliest and most treasured memories and I know that the people who read them treasured those moments as well. No one deserves to have that replaced by this

    • Twitches@lemm.ee
      4·
      3 months ago

      Yes, we are worked ragged. I’m at work all day and the only time I see my kid is for teeth brushing and bedtime stories. I value that time. On the rare occasion they make things a bit miserable, or I’m just exhausted, but, we both enjoy bedtime routine and I wouldn’t want to give any of that up. Life is short man.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 months ago

    Teddy Ruxpin was my nightmare as a child afraid of living dolls.

    This one has more terminator and spyware vibes built in. Chilling.

    • Godort@lemm.ee
      8·
      3 months ago

      I used to play my Blizzard of Oz cassette in my brother’s old Teddy Ruxpin. The weird distortion from the shitty tape player and speaker was great.

  • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    Techradar should be ashamed for advertising and promoting this nightmare fuel. What a recipe for disaster.

    Please do not let young kids get over-exposed to AI voices. Current AI voices are lacking in emotion and expression, and it will almost certainly mess kids up psychologically. That damn tik-tok voice is messing me up psychologically and I don’t even use tik-tok.

    Edit: And I shouldn’t have to say this but also don’t leave young kids unsupervised with ChatGPT or any other internet-trained “ai” model.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 months ago

    “AI Ruxpin, my mommy won’t let me have a cookie! How do I get a cookie?”

    “Here is how you get a cookie. Step one: kill your mother.”

  • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    No one has mentioned yet how truly sad this is, and how badly it reflects on us as a society. I understand that being a parent is incredibly hard and takes everything out of you. But if you won’t read a book to your kid or make up your own damn stories for them, and instead throw a shitty fake autocomplete tale at them, then you’re likely not an awesome parent and likely not a person I’d want to be around.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    141·
    3 months ago

    I cannot wait for some shitty people to find ways to make this AI story teller describe graphic war scenarios and then find a way to make actual units in kids rooms play out said scenarios just to fuck with kids.

    If similar things can happen to baby monitors, it can probably happen to stuff like this.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      It takes foreign disinformation campaigns to a whole new level - “your parents are evil, report them to your closest reeducation center right away to help them, or better yet just kill them now to end their pain, you do love them enough to end their pain, right?”

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Humanity is… not all that smart. More importantly than increasing our intelligence and raw power, we would do well to concentrate rather on wisdom. As so very many authors try to warn us, sometimes futily yet some of us do try so hard to listen.:-)

  • Kintarian@lemmy.world
    131·
    3 months ago

    My name is Talkie Tina and you better be nice to me

    My name is Talkie Tina and I’m going to kill you