The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over ...

The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over …

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    38·
    19 days ago

    It’s Grem, an AI-powered stuffed alien toy that the musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio. Designed for kids aged three and over and built with OpenAI’s technology, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys.

    Burn it with fire.

    • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      19 days ago

      It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys.

      They say it’s healthier, what incentive would they have to mislead?!

    • wheezy@lemmy.ml
      9·
      18 days ago

      Oh god. Grimes. You don’t have a kid with Elon Musk and have a brain that isn’t rotted. This sounds like one the kind of ideas she’d hear and fund. I’m not surprised.