I know what you're thinking: My child's toys aren't racist enough. Well, I have some great news! - ThreadSky

bencollins.bsky.social • 440 days ago

I know what you're thinking: My child's toys aren't racist enough.

Well, I have some great news!

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anniegirl.bsky.social•440 days ago

elf on the shelf has been priming parents for this new found horror.

brianoblivion.bsky.social•440 days ago

new: bigot on a spigot

anniegirl.bsky.social•440 days ago

Parents already let their kids interact with Alexa or whatever virtual servant they have. It will be an easy sell to them.

brianoblivion.bsky.social•440 days ago

i wouldn't want those in my house. each to his own i suppose

lizrummy.bsky.social•440 days ago

Cool press release, Taylor!

dillo.media•440 days ago

I have no doubt she got one for free

immaculatepizza.bsky.social•440 days ago

It seems like this is an attempt to annoy her children's father rather than to work with him, but who can say with these goofballs

erimgard.bsky.social•440 days ago

Might be the other way around. The company she's working with already had the trademark for Grok before Elon launched his

immaculatepizza.bsky.social•440 days ago

That's what I mean. A product with the actual trademark behind it might create difficulties for his fake AI whose only purpose was to tell people they can say slurs

cingraham.bsky.social•440 days ago

*marketing director sweating profusely* hahaha no I know what you're thinking but Elon Musk's racial slur chatbot is an entirely different product from his ex-wife's chatbot that bears the same name, as you can see this toy is actually very reluctant to say the n-word and will only do so under certa

warybear.bsky.social•440 days ago

It only says the n word when you put the trolley playset (sold separately) in a configuration that makes it morally necessary

astrocat.bsky.social•440 days ago

Of course, you can't fit all the tensor cores needed to do AI fakery in a toy, so this will be recording your child's voice and sending it off to... well, don't worry about, I'm sure it's fine

ridgewaygirl.bsky.social•440 days ago

Rich people lack even the imagination to name the things other people come up with.

brianoblivion.bsky.social•440 days ago

says it uses openai not grok

quakerpuppygirl.bsky.social•440 days ago

Grok also uses openai, elon musk did not make his own llm lmfao

tedcruzinusa.bsky.social•440 days ago

Taylor Lorenz thinking “should I say the toy is AI-powered or racially-charged?”

phildenton.bsky.social•440 days ago

is this all a fucking joaquin phoenix prank

micahhh.bsky.social•440 days ago

Aren’t they divorced yet!?

astrocat.bsky.social•440 days ago

Never married

mrreciprocity.bsky.social•440 days ago

I got curious about this a couple months ago, and it took me several pop culture articles and an eventual Wikipedia foray to understand that while, yes, Elon has been married three times, he actually married the robot hostess from Westworld twice, and Grimes zero times.

micahhh.bsky.social•440 days ago

lol?

does he really have 11 children crawling around this rock?

mrreciprocity.bsky.social•440 days ago

Yes--in large part because nearly all of them were conceived using medical assistance, so there's a lot of twins and triplets.

jamie623.bsky.social•440 days ago

I guess this was inevitable. 🤷🏻‍♀️

theflyingfirk.bsky.social•440 days ago

Oh, oh no.

kylewoodley.bsky.social•440 days ago

“Every [change] in technology unlocks new forms of entertainment. It’s a different level of immersion for playtime.”
“It’s a new hardware medium."

Aren't toys supposed to be -fun-?

ridgewaygirl.bsky.social•440 days ago

Rich people will do a lot to avoid having to parent their children.

humanistfromtx.bsky.social•440 days ago

I thought grok was based

oh.mg•440 days ago

We are absolutely in the Bad Place

umakarma.bsky.social•440 days ago

"“Finally,” Eaton said, “technology is allowing us to move back into our own reality instead of descending into a digital reality.”

And we're avoiding the risk of descending into a digital reality by selling children [checks notes]... digital friends?

drandrewthaler.bsky.social•440 days ago

Presumably this has been in development for more than a week, which means Musk almost certainly named his weird chatbot Grok in order to vindictively undermine his ex.

ozmodiar.bsky.social•440 days ago

That was my thought as well

ktbobaytee.bsky.social•440 days ago

I can't think for too long about how we're letting the worst people in the world collaboratively train an AI that all of us will be subjected to in ways we can't even imagine yet or I'll freak out. And that was before I realized we'd turn it loose on our kids.

tajrblue.bsky.social•440 days ago

Need more information on that one.

andrewparker.bsky.social•440 days ago

“Expected to be an explosion of AI toys.”

Expected by whom? Because I don’t expect the market for “we put a Nazi version of clippy in a stuffed animal” to be all that large.

Furbies didn’t really catch on and those weren’t bigots.

creeptwin.bsky.social•440 days ago

Not sure where you were when furbies came out but it was a massive trend in my childhood. All my friends had at least 1 furby. (I had 2 and made them talk.)

creeptwin.bsky.social•440 days ago

(I don't have the memory power to think about how long it lasted tho)

andrewparker.bsky.social•440 days ago

They didn’t flop, for sure, but they were also pretty flash-in-the-pan. For the US I’d guess they sold about on par with Tamagotchis during both products’ initial stateside releases.