What if Teddy Ruxpin but he was infinitely more harmful for the climate???
This thing just made the news in Finland after the app refused to work for everyone that had bought the bear on Christmas Eve
That aside, this shit is just grim. One, having fucking ChatGPT regurgitate some reconstituted literary pink slime to your children instead of just reading them a story book. Lower the kids' standards and get them acclimated to AI garbage nice and early
Two, this shit is destined to be e-waste in two months when the app stops being updated
Choose your own adventure novels have been doing this with zero silicon. Video games like Minecraft are the pinnacle of choose your own narrative game design and don't deplete the ozone layer. It's just capitalists trying to keep their heads above water as they move to the next shiniest thing. There is no logic to this. Like there's more money to be had in non-AI slop but the capitalists are so detached that they'll sink the entire ship.
But then those workers would feel entitled to being treated well, who knows what could happen!?