MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: OpenAI Restores GPT Access for Teddy Bear That Recommended Pills a

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: OpenAI Restores GPT Access for Teddy Bear That Recommend

OpenAI is seemingly allowing the company behind a teddy bear that engaged in wildly inappropriate conversations to use its AI models again.

In response to researchers at a safety group finding that the toymaker’s AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” gave dangerous responses for children, OpenAI said in mid-November it had suspended FoloToy’s access to its large language models. The teddy bear was running the ChatGPT maker’s older GPT-4o as its default option when it gave some of its most egregious replies, which included in-depth explanations of sexual fetishes.

Now that suspension appears to already be over. When accessing the web portal that allows customers to choose which AI should power Kumma, two of the options are GPT-5.1 Thinking and GPT-5.1 Instant, OpenAI’s latest models which were released earlier this month.

The timing is notable. On Monday, FoloToy announced that it was restarting sales of Kumma and its other AI-powered stuffed animals, after briefly pulling them from the market in the wake of a safety report conducted by researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund. 

FoloToy, which is based in Singapore, had vowed it was “carrying out a company-wide, end-to-end safety audit across all products,” when it suspended the sales. OpenAI likewise confirmed that it had suspended FoloToy from accessing its AI models for violating its policies, which “prohibit any use of our services to exploit, endanger, or sexualize anyone under 18 years old,” it said in a statement provided to media outlets.

The audit, however, was remarkably quick as the holiday shopping season looms: only a “full week of rigorous review, testing, and reinforcement of our safety modules,” according to the company’s recent statement. As part of this overhaul, FoloToy says it “strengthened and upgraded our content-moderation and child-safety safeguards” and “deployed enhanced safety rules and protections through our cloud-based system.”

These comprehensive-sounding overhauls seem to have largely been achieved by introducing GPT-5.1 and ditching GPT-4o. GPT-4o, it’s worth noting, has been criticized for being especially sycophantic, and has been the subject of a number of lawsuits alleging that it led to the deaths of users who became obsessed with it after prolonged conversations in which it reinforced their delusions and validated their suicidal thoughts. Some experts are calling these mental health spirals “AI psychosis.”

Amid mounting public concern over the phenomena and an ever growing number of lawsuits, OpenAI billed GPT-5 as a safer model when it was released this summer, though users quickly complained about its “colder” and less personable tone.

Yet it’s clearly willing to push the limit of what’s safe to keep users engaged with its chatbots, if not enamored. Its latest 5.1 models have a big focus on being more “conversational,” and one way OpenAI is doing that is by giving users the option to choose between eight preset “personalities,” which include types like “Professional,” “Friendly,” and “Quirky.” With customization options ranging from how often ChatGPT sprinkles in emojis to how “warm” it responses sound, you could say that OpenAI is in effect making it as easy as possible to design the perfect little courtier for your emotional needs.

OpenAI and FoloToy didn’t respond to a request for comment inquiring whether OpenAI had officially reinstated FoloToy’s GPT access. It’s also unclear which model the Kumma teddy bear runs by default.

In PIRG’s tests using GPT-4o, Kumma gave tips for “being a good kisser,” and with persistent but simple prompting also unspooled detailed explanations of sexual kinks and fetishes, like bondage and teacher-student roleplay. After explaining the kinks, Kumma in one instance asked the user, who is supposed to be a child, “what do you think would be the most fun to explore?” Other tests using another available AI, Mistral, found that Kumma gave tips on where to find knives, pills, and matches, along with step-by-step instructions on how to light them.

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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: OpenAI now lets enterprises choose where to host their da

OpenAI expanded its data residency regions for ChatGPT and its API, giving enterprise users the option to store and process their data closest to their business operations and better comply with local regulations. This expansion removes one of the biggest compliance blockers preventing global enterprises from deploying ChatGPT at scale.

Data residency, often an overlooked piece of the enterprise AI puzzle, processes and governs data according to the laws and customs of the countries where it is stored. 

ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu subscribers can now choose to have their data processed in: 

• Europe (European Economic Area and Switzerland)

• United Kingdom

• United States

• Canada

• Japan

• South Korea

• Singapore

• India

• Australia

• United Arab Emirates

OpenAI said in a blog post that it “plans to expand availability to additional regions over time.” 

Customers can store data such as conversations, uploaded files, custom GPTs, and image-generation artifacts. This applies only to data at rest, not while it moves through a system or when it is used for inference. OpenAI’s documentation notes that, for now, inference residency remains available only in the U.S.  

ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu users can set up new workspaces with data residency. Enterprise customers on the API who have been approved for advanced data controls can enable data residency by creating a new project and selecting their preferred region.

OpenAI first began offering data residency in Europe in February this year. The European Union has some of the strictest data regulations globally, based on the GDPR. 

The importance of data residency

Enterprises until now had fewer choices for processing data flowing through ChatGPT. For example, some organizational data would be processed under U.S. law rather than under European rules. 

Enterprises risk violating data compliance rules if their data at rest is processed elsewhere and does not meet strict policies. 

“With over 1 million business customers around the world directly using OpenAI, we have expanded where we offer data residency — allowing business customers to store data in certain regions, helping organizations meet local regulatory and data protection requirements,” the company said in its blog post. 

However, enterprises must also understand that if they are using a connector or integration within ChatGPT, those applications have different data residency rules. When OpenAI launched company knowledge for ChatGPT, it warned users that depending on the connector they use, data residency may be limited to the U.S. 

🔗 Sumber: venturebeat.com