{"id":20093,"date":"2025-09-16T04:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:38:16","slug":"i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I love you too!\u2019 My family\u2019s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to \u2018learn\u2019 your child\u2019s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn\u2019t long before I wanted this experiment to be over &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m going to throw that thing into a river!\u201d my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking frazzled after putting our four-year-old daughter to bed.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, \u201cthat thing\u201d is not our daughter, Emma*. It\u2019s Grem, an AI-powered stuffed alien toy that the musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio. Designed for kids aged three and over and built with OpenAI\u2019s technology, the toy is supposed to \u201clearn\u201d your child\u2019s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It\u2019s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/16\/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2ba9fe8944d52fb56c18893ee19b5d16e9701be0\/1296_629_1825_1460\/master\/1825.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7827edabf7aa72907662b8688efcf29b\" title=\"\u2018I love you too!\u2019 My family\u2019s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy\" \/>The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to \u2018learn\u2019 your child\u2019s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn\u2019t long before I wanted this experiment to be over &#8230;<br \/>\n\u2018I\u2019m going to throw that thing into a river!\u201d my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking frazzled after putting our four-year-old daughter to bed.<br \/>\nTo be clear, \u201cthat thing\u201d is not our daughter, Emma*. It\u2019s Grem, an AI-powered stuffed alien toy that the musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio. Designed for kids aged three and over and built with OpenAI\u2019s technology, the toy is supposed to \u201clearn\u201d your child\u2019s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It\u2019s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to \u2018learn\u2019 your child\u2019s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn\u2019t long before I wanted this experiment to be over &#8230; \u2018I\u2019m going to throw that thing into a river!\u201d my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I love you too!\u2019 My family\u2019s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}