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Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended

83 points • by testing22321 • today at 5:49 AM • 13 comments • view on HN

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tintor • today at 7:52 AM

This looks very bad on OpenAI.

What is next? Power and water company suspending your account if your home and car are not streaming enough telemetry.

I am glad that open models are closing on frontier.

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3abiton • today at 7:52 AM

This is again will be very funny race to watch. Right now you can fairly do lots of reverse enginnering or "hacking" with off the shelf Chinese models, and they are very capable (GLM3 for example) which can be run locally if you stomach the hardware. Tools like rea are also becoming more popular. If openai continues to be pedantic, they will lose the technical base given how close is the gap getting.

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ada-h00k • today at 7:45 AM

If OpenAI really banned him for that reason, that would be pretty stupid. If you can no longer use an LLM for reverse engineering without worrying about your account, that drastically reduces its value.

luma • today at 7:59 AM

Dog bark and baby crying detection are advertised features for SmartThings integrations. Door bell and door knocking are also included, this is surfaced directly if you hook the TV or sound bar into SmartThings.

tkel • today at 7:55 AM

from his twitter account:

> if your samsung TV model doesnt have a microphone, it will look for connected devices with one, such as a soundbar or a connected bluetooth device. this gets shipped off to bixby.

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kjsingh • today at 8:36 AM

so is the hardware mic-off button on Samsung TV any good?

znpy • today at 8:36 AM

so glad i bought a dumb tv.

i remember going store to store in search of one.

gg me, that was a smart move.

Hugsun • today at 7:52 AM

I'm curious if someone has started cataloging these cases. These spying TVs seem like a common industry practice.

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Den_VR • today at 8:01 AM

The tile references on-board ai. “On-board ai” here is automatic content recognition. Imagine my disappointment