{"id":23761,"date":"2026-02-21T03:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:34:17","slug":"toy-story-5-takes-aim-at-creepy-ai-toys-im-always-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23761","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Toy Story 5&#8217; takes aim at creepy AI toys: &#8216;I&#8217;m always listening&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the first Toy Story movie came out in 1995, Google didn\u2019t exist yet and Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. No one could have predicted that over 30 years later, Pixar would still be making Toy Story movies, nor could anyone have known that the latest installation in the franchise would pit Buzz Lightyear and a balding Woody against an evil AI tablet called Lilypad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But sure enough, \u201cToy Story 5\u201d confronts old-school toys like Mrs. Potato Head, Rex, and Slinky Dog against the sinister threat of <em>technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trailer shows Bonnie, the young girl who inherited Andy\u2019s toys when he left for college in \u201cToy Story 2,\u201d playing outside with her toys when a surprise package with the Lilypad tablet arrives for her. She becomes completely enraptured by the tablet, not even looking up from the screen when her parents tell her that screen time is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cToy Story 5\u201d trailer makes the Lilypad \u2014 or, Lily \u2014 out to be a sinister villain. When Jessie confronts the tablet about Bonnie\u2019s well-being, Lily seems not to be paying attention, so the cowgirl demands that the tablet listen to her.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toy Story 5 | Official Trailer | In Theaters June 19\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c51ND9Hdbw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m always listening,\u201d Lily says ominously, regurgitating Jessie\u2019s impassioned speech in a computerized tone\u2026 and then translates it into Spanish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTech\u2019s invaded our house,\u201d Jessie tells Woody. \u201cI\u2019m losing Bonnie to this device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Woody replies, \u201cToys are for play, but tech is for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">June 9, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could \u201cToy Story 5\u201d pull at the heartstrings of young children and get them to think twice about the consequences of excessive screen time? That may be a stretch. But at least it gives them something to watch that\u2019s not as mind numbing as Cocomelon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/20\/toy-story-5-takes-aim-at-creepy-ai-toys-im-always-listening\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the first Toy Story movie&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[329,13912,13913,13914],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}