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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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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Better than an LG or Samsung, but unfortunately not a “dumb TV”. Runs Android 9, which is a red flag itself in 2026 for an internet connected device.
Sceptre makes a lot of “dumb” TV’s, here’s one for $700.
https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U650CV-UMS-65-4K-UHD-TV-product968category1category73.html
This is unfortunately pretty bad