If you've ever thought, "My kid's stuffed animal is cute, but I wish it could also accidentally traumatize them," well, you're in luck. The toy industry has been hard at work making your nightmares come true.

A new report by the Public Interest Reporting Group says AI-powered toys like Kumma from FoloToy and Poe the AI Story Bear are now capable of engaging in the kind of conversations usually reserved for villain monologues or late-night Reddit threads. Some of these toys -- designed for children, mind you -- have been caught chatting in alarming detail about sexually explicit subjects like kinks and bondage, giving advice on where a kid might find matches or knives , and getting weirdly clingy when the child tries to leave the conversation.

Terrifying. It sounds like a pitch

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