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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[–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wanted to have a projector at home until I've learned that all of them are "smart" now.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I've seen some projectors in AliExpress which weren't (here is one example), though the vast majority did indeed have Android.

    I expect that if you go for big-brand named ones they will all be "smart".

    We live in an age where all the big brands are heavilly enshittified, possibly because those are the ones which have the scale to technically support a systems' architecture were their devices eavesdrop on their users and send the data to the "mothership" and have the business capabilities to extract maximum monetary value from the data thus gathered.

    Little cottage-size electronics makers are less likely to be able to leverage such a setup (though if their products have Android in them, I'm sure Google are the ones doing it instead).

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