BONUS - AI Toys Gone Wild

This holiday season, be careful what toys you get your kids! The Public Interest Research Group’s 40th annual Trouble in Toyland Report reveals that AI-powered toys can sometimes go rogue—offering inappropriate advice, roasting toddlers, or even teaching questionable lessons. From teddy bears turning mean to talking kitchen sets and AI bunnies going off-script, parents are sharing hilarious and shocking stories. Tune in to hear the funniest (and most alarming) AI toy fails before you buy this Christmas!

---

You can find every podcast we have, including the full show every weekday right here…

➡︎ https://thejubalshow.com/podcasts

---

The Jubal Show is everywhere, and also these places:

• Website ➡︎ https://thejubalshow.com 
• Instagram ➡︎ https://instagram.com/thejubalshow 
• X/Twitter ➡︎ https://twitter.com/thejubalshow 
• Tiktok ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@the.jubal.show
• Facebook ➡︎ https://facebook.com/thejubalshow 
• YouTube ➡︎ https://www.youtube.com/@JubalFresh

Support the show: https://the-jubal-show.beehiiv.com/subscribe

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Be careful what you get your kids for Christmas this year. Oh,
it's the Jewel Show. And I know it's not even
Thanksgiving yet, but a nonprofit called Public Interest Research Group
released its fortieth annual Trouble in Toyland Report.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
In the past, they focused on things like choking hazards
and issues that kids can have like that. Now they've
issued a new report and a new warning for children's
toys this holiday season. And you'd be surprised at what
this year's most dangerous kids toys are. So give me
three minutes and I'll tell you what toys you should

(00:41):
definitely avoid getting your kids this holiday season. It's also hilarious.
What's happening. We'll tell you about it right after this.
It's the Jewbil Show. Close your eyes and think back
to when you were a little baby child yesterday. The
holidays were such a magical time, learning to celebrate, overeating
during Thanksgiving, and then came Christmas when Santa uses a

(01:01):
slave labor to produce toys for all the good bols
and girls. And if you were a child like me,
you realize how bad you've been all year because Santa
literally didn't bring you anything. You'd ask for Well, he
kind of did, Like, if I want to do nikes,
he brought me some pro wings. Hey. In other words,
Santa just delivered toys to me that would help me
learn to stick up for myself on the playground.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
A nonprofit called Public Interest Research Group or at least
it's fortieth annual Trouble in Toyland Report. In the past
they focus on things like choking hazards, but now they're
saying there's a new thing that parents need to look
out for this holiday season when buying your kids a
Christmas gift.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
And that thing is AI.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yep, it's been forty years since the Teddy Ruck's been
remember that. Oh yeah, well teddy bear that could talk
for itself. It blew everybody's minds talking and reading stories.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh cool, wells really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
See how far we've come, Because now foul mouthed AI
toys could be the big issue this smith. Oh, it's
the first year that a ton of popular toys will
have built in AI.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
And they tested a bunch of.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Toys that use AI that have full on conversations with kids,
and they found that some of these conversations weren't exactly PG.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Why are they putting AI and toys toys are for
little kids.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
People do not need that.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, my niece, well as an auntie, I'm taking this
very seriously, but my niece and nephew have something called
the Owl, so it's kind of like Alexa, but they
keep it in their room and they talk to it.
It tells them stories and like has conversations with that stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
There's all kinds of AI toys like that, and some
parents are already sharing their experiences with these AI toys.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, now they've become really bad for the kids.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
They said that we found some toys that will talk
in depth, and they'll go over sexually explicit topic comics, whoa,
they'll offer advice on where a child can find matches
or knives.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
What they're not testing this ahead of time, Like isn't
your job with AI to ask every problematic question to
make sure it says I.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Don't know, And they say, there's no way to tell
what an AI toy might talk.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
About, so you need to be careful. Used to be having.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Kids choke on legos, but no, no, they're gonna get
the top yea.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Now it's from their little robot AI Teddy Bear teaching
them how to rob a bank A. Yeah, some parents
have weighed in with issues they've already had with some
of their AI technology toys. We're talking about how a
public interest group has issued a warning for parents to
be careful what AI toys you buy your kids this
holiday season. One family said that they had a Teddy
Bear that started giving their son motivational speeches, but then

(03:41):
it got progressively meaner.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
It went from things like you can do.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
It, buddy, to cry one more time and I'll write
a Yelp review about your attitude.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
No, that's so mean. No, I mean it totally is
ted Bear. It's funny.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's awesome for adults, right, and yeah, that would be hilarious,
But for a five year old, it's just like, oh
my gosh, I'm being bullied by my bear.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
You have a romantic partner. Here's an idea to get
on that Christmas.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
They were going over a report from a public interest
group that says you should be careful what toys you
get for your kid this holiday season because AI can
malfunction and there's been a lot of reports of AI
toys being explicit with kids. One family said they had
an AI dump truck and it was supposed to teach
their kid construction words cute, right, they said, Instead it
started yelling nice parking job, genius every time it pumped

(04:35):
into something, basically started road raging.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
They would not to say that.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
My four year old now asking me to hawk if
I'm behind anybody at a stop sign because of the truck.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, this is real life.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
But that's just crazy to me, Like that's like not
you would think these are kids toys. So either to
take the AI out or like, ca have it stopped
doing that.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Search it enough and put some restraints on it so
that it can't say certain things like this. One family
who talked about a kitchen set that they got for
their daughter, they said to play oven called their todd
a toddler a culinary disappointment okang, and told her that
her plastic pizza was an insult to cuisine.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, there's always that like brain somewhere that's like
I'm going to take over the world. This is how
they're doing it. They watching the children when they're young,
and then you.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Know, the AI oven actually told the daughter at one
point to get the f out of its kitchen. I
don't know if it was getting confused with the Gordon
Ramsey episode or what can that's funny?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Not her child, but that's funny.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, but all curse words should not be anywhere.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
No, no, of course not.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Another family is sharing a story of how they got
their kid a AI bunny that talks to them, said
the kids bunny started saying, let's hop to it. It's
like the thing that it started saying, but then it's AI,
so it learns. And then at one point they caught
the bunny saying to the kid, what's the point of
hopping if you know nobody truly loves you?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Why is the eye still depraved? I mean, also a
great point, right, he's young.