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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As always though the best solution is to never connect your tv to the internet
or.... we could make like a rooted homebrew app that completely like turns off all telemetry...... we could make it so that they're not able to update the firmware and force a mismatch so that they still update netflix and all the commercial apps through like a generic webos update..... there's ways around it I think no on eis willing to go the extra mile to get in trouble with the fcc to reverse engineer a tv and then put all the data out there.
To be honest though, it should be against FCC regulations to wiretap tv's and all these companies are circumventing wiretapping laws by calling it data collection and forcing users into agreeing into a TOS OR THEY'RE UNABLE TO USE THE DEVICE RATHER THAN BEING ABLE TO USE THE SCREEN WITH NO INTERNET OR ANYTHING CONNECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!