An American student connected a Furby plush to ChatGPT to hear the talk of artificial intelligence in the beak of the iconic 90s plush. On April 3, 2023, she revealed the video of the toy presenting a plan to dominate the world.
“A total domination of humanity”. When we ask ChatGPT changed to Furbies what he intends to do with the world, he paints a very disturbing portrait of his vision of things.
A student at the University of Vermont experienced this. By integrating the code of artificial intelligence in the configuration of the plush, the latter began to speak of its machiavellian project to control the world, reports The Independant.
“Something bad for humanity”
In a tweet, Jessica Card wonders about the artificial intelligence of the OpenIA group by sharing the video of a linked Furby in ChatGPT. Student in programming, she managed to make artificial intelligence speak through the beak of the toy. Asking Furby if there was a “secret conspiracy” circulating around the plush, he replied in the affirmative.
Not without eloquence, the plushie begins by blinking his eyes, wiggling his ears and then explains in a childlike voice that there is a plan among the Furbies to dominate the world.
The fluff’s plan for such a conquest is to infiltrate households through their cute and cuddly appearance, then use their advanced AI technology to manipulate and control their owners. They will slowly expand their influence until they have complete dominance over humanity.
A joke that awakens technophobic ideas
Unlike the techies and their passion for the world of technology and all the prowess it can allow, a way of thinking fears that this progress will be deleterious.
The discourse of the plush is far from revealing the impossible intention of a unconscious object. Moreover, he was born data collected by artificial intelligence: millions, if not billions of information exchanged on the internet that reveal this part of the collective imagination.
The idea that a group of robots, or even simple objects, would take over the world is not new. From the 1984 book to the film I-Robot, many stories feed the fear of a Machiavellian artificial intelligence. What to give grain to grind with ChatGPT which made speak Furby of the way with which some are afraid that it does not express itself.