Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar’s mic if the TV doesn’t have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.

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Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar’s mic if the TV doesn’t have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.

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That’s when you open the tv up and drop a blob of solder on the modem
And then they’ll make TVs that refuse to boot if they don’t detect a working modem.
Sadly, I think this is where we’re heading if the arms race heats up.