“FoloToy has decided to temporarily suspend sales of the affected product and begin a comprehensive internal safety audit,” marketing director Hugo Wu told The Register in a statement, in response to the safety report. “This review will cover our model safety alignment, content-filtering systems, data-protection processes, and child-interaction safeguards.”FoloToy, Wu added, will work with outside experts to verify existing and new safety features in its AI-powered toys. “It helps us improve.”The report, conducted by researchers at the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) and released Thursday, tested three AI-powered toys from different companies, finding that all of them were capable of providing concerning answers to young users. Without too much prodding, the AI toys discussed topics that a parent might be uncomfortable with, ranging from religious questions to the glory of dying in battle as a warrior in Norse mythology. The LLMs powering the chatbots involved in these deaths are more or less the same tech used in the AI toys hitting the market.