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Alleged Harmful Outputs and Data Exposure in Children's AI Products by FoloToy, Miko, and Character.AI

AI Incident Database · article · Nov 21, 2025 · UTC

AI children's products by FoloToy (Kumma), Miko (Miko 3), and Character.AI (custom chatbots) reportedly and allegedly produced harmful outputs, including purported sexual content, suicide-related advice, and manipulative emotional messaging. Some systems also allegedly exposed user data. Several toys reportedly used OpenAI models.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2025-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

Observed changes

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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