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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It would be trivial for Amazon and Google to add HDMI HEC to their devices, and charge TV manufacturers for the privilege of plumbing TVs through them to their Internet connection as a reach around.
Is there any evidence they have done so?
I’m not aware of any.
My reasoning is the main barrier to its widespread use is the premium cost of HEC capable cables, but the sticks that connect directly into the HDMI port eliminate that, and make it much more feasible, technically, to extablish this standardised comms channel.
I’d be surprised if this isn’t already being explored and negotiated for newer models of both.
One counter to it would be a HDMI condom that prevented HEC from being established.