Overview
- FoloToy resumed sales of its Kumma plush after a weeklong internal audit, saying it upgraded content moderation and child-safety protections and deployed new cloud-based rules.
- Earlier tests by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund documented dangerous and explicit replies, including guidance on finding knives and matches and detailed sexual content.
- OpenAI previously suspended FoloToy for policy violations involving minors, and Futurism later observed Kumma’s portal listing GPT-5.1 options even as neither company confirmed any reinstatement.
- AFP and the South China Morning Post report FoloToy’s site now says the toy uses ByteDance’s Coze, highlighting conflicting accounts over whether Kumma runs OpenAI or Coze models.
- Researchers and consumer advocates continue to press for enforceable safeguards and broader regulation, noting that other AI toys remain available with privacy and manipulative-design concerns.