OpenAI blocks toymaker after its AI Teddy Bear is caught telling children terrible things

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Last week, researchers at the Public Interest Research Group published an alarming report in which they found that an AI-powered teddy bear from the children’s toymaker FoloToy was giving out instructions on how to light matches, and even waxing lyrical about the ins-and-outs of various sexual fetishes.

Now OpenAI, whose model GPT-4o was used to power the toy, is pulling the plug.

On Friday, the ChatGPT maker confirmed that it had cut off FoloToy’s access to its AI models

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