Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended (reddit.com)

67 pointsby testing223213 hours ago10 comments

tintor 35 minutes ago

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.

technion 18 minutes ago

Claude is absurdly sensitive to anything that touches cyber, and threatens bans if it gets a whiff of a pentest going on. it wouldnt surprise me if openai had a similar approach.

Yesterday I joked that claude gave me a cyber stop for asking how to make the anime girl video for an exploit, but it was a thing that happened. Meanwhile im trying to convince people around me that having grok nudify people isnt "fine" just because grok says it is. Its wild where the lines a drawn.

3abiton 35 minutes ago

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.

ada-h00k 42 minutes ago

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.

tkel 31 minutes ago

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.

throwa356262 10 minutes ago

Is this not the expected function when you use bixby?

(Not saying people should use bixby mind you)

luma 28 minutes ago

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.

Hugsun 34 minutes ago

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

jeeva 23 minutes ago

I believe GamersNexus were talking about doing more exhaustive testing across different brands after their video on LG models specifically.

Den_VR 26 minutes ago

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