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what about no. too many people are smoking today.

People should have been imprisoned over the Sony rootkit scandal.

For those who don't know - their music CDs had malware built in that automatically installed itself on PCs without prompting or notification that gave unsecured root access to any PC through a hidden service that couldn't be detected or disabled from within Windows. It was as bad as bad gets. There was no hidden EULA or anything. They just straight-up installed viruses on millions of PCs that opened the door for other malware to install itself at the root level where it couldn't be detected.

Sony should have been shut down entirely over it.

Westinghouse and Magnavox TV brands both exist with dumb TV options, Max 32" though

The Westinghouse is unfortunately on Amazon, but I found the Magnavox at Canadian Tire for $200

EULA has T&C that the first users agree to when they fast forward with the accept accept accept accept screens

It's all in the EULA no one can opt out of, and no one reads, and they can change at any time.

You can blame companies who make hardware, but the laws on privacy are terrible.

They don't need consent, none do us can afford to sue them.

These TVs don't incorporate enough power to do any kind of serious LLM. The "AI" they're referring to here is likely an embedded speech-to-text engine. And that probably is pretty necessary for this--it would take too much data to send actual recordings to Samsung, but text transcripts are tiny and easier to search and index. It's easy to forget, but reliable speech-to-text has been around less than 20 years, and the tiny ones that can run on embedded chips are even newer.

They're using a classifier to capture metadata (like “does a dog live there?” or “does a baby live there”) by categorizing sounds. That's all technically legal, that's why they do it that way.

Could you go into more detail for those of us who don't want to brick their tv? I think you're over estimating some of our knowledge base.

Examples/HOWTO?