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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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

The mesh network of TVs to circumvent one not having internet is definitely possible and an accusation thrown around a lot but afaik it’s never been shown to be true. This thing with Samsung searching for usable mics is the closest thing I’ve seen to something like that

That said I would not even be a little surprised if it turned out to be happening

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Frankly, with Samsung I would be more worried about Samsung phones covertly acting as hidden WiFi access points for other Samsung devices.

    Given the way such device get updates nowadays, even if that's not hapenning we're literally 1 Samsung automatic Android update away from it being all over the place if they so wish.

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