Yup we should put AI in children’s toys because AI needs to be everywhere. The linked bear was willing to talk about raunchy sex stuff with kids, advise them where to get knives and narcotics. Of course OpenAI cut the company off of their API, but that doesn’t stop the hundreds of other children’s toy companies that are still adding AI to their toys.
In Not with a Bug but with a Sticker the author notes the haste with which companies deploy LLM’s to their products so they don’t see to be “behind the times”1. They do this in a rush to get to market well before they understand the impact that their new product will have on consumers. The author’s also show that if you have an AI model you can be sure that it’s possible to compromise it regardless of the safeguards you put in place2.
AI in most products seems like an anti-sales tactic to me, much like a big screen in my fridge would convince me not to purchase it.