{"id":977160,"date":"2025-11-28T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977160"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:10:15","slug":"singapore-ai-teddy-back-on-sale-after-recall-over-sex-chat-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/28\/singapore-ai-teddy-back-on-sale-after-recall-over-sex-chat-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore AI teddy back on sale after recall over sex chat scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plushy, AI-enabled teddy bear recalled after its chatbot was found to engage in sexually explicit conversations and offer instructions on where to find knives is again for sale, AFP found. <\/p>\n<p>Singapore-based FoloToy had suspended its &#8220;Kumma&#8221; bear after a consumer advocacy group raised concerns about it and other AI toys on the market. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For decades, the biggest dangers with toys were choking hazards and lead,&#8221; the US PIRG Education Fund said in a November 13 report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plushy, AI-enabled teddy bear recalled after its chatbot was found to engage in sexually explicit conversations and offer instructions on where to find knives is again for sale, AFP found. Singapore-based FoloToy had suspended its &#8220;Kumma&#8221; bear after a consumer advocacy group raised concerns about it and other AI toys on the market. &#8220;For decades, the biggest dangers with toys were choking hazards and lead,&#8221; the US PIRG Education Fund said in a November 13 report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}