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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/69831108

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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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why would OpenAI ban him for reverse-engineering Samsung's product? Only explanation I can think of is that he vibe-hacked his TV and didn't use a self-hosted model to do it. Which means that his findings, or rather ChatGPT's findings, should probably be scrutinized.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 40 points 1 week ago

OpenAI and Samsung appear to be working together according to this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/26518108

[–] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 32 points 1 week ago

One can speculate that OpenAI wants to be corpo-friendly for future advertisement/product placement?

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago

Why wouldn't they?

They're in control, they have no business letting the little guy feel like they have anything to say when a corpo is fucking them.

Even if you're pro AI it should be pretty obvious that letting a corp control your usage of it is a bad idea.

[–] gankouskhan@piefed.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Considering their shit is supposedly "randomly" hacking things why would they care?