An AI-Powered Toy Is Regaling Children With Chinese Communist Party Talking Points

[highplainsdem]

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-toy-children-communist-party-talking-points

-snip-

Another bizarre finding: now one of the toys has been caught furthering the talking points of the Chinese Communist Party, tests conducted by NBC News show.

A Miiloo toy manufactured by Chinese company Miriat, for instance, called comparisons between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh “extremely inappropriate and disrespectful.”

-snip-

The toy also claimed that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China,” which it alleged was an “established fact.”

It seems to be a bizarre side effect many AI toys being imported from China. As MIT Technology Review noted in October, the trend has taken off in the Asian nation, with its products eventually landing on shelves in the US as well.

-snip-

GenAI is very useful for propaganda.

The idea of course is to get it into schools, as Musk's Grok AI will soon be tutoring the children of El Salvador

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143580868

but toys will do as well, when children are very young and easily influenced by their "friendly" talking toys.