AI is coming for your TV

[ncted]

https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/tv-providers/lg-tv-update-adds-non-removable-microsoft-copilot-app-to-webos

 

[John2021]

you can'y buy a t,v, today without it demanding you to connect it to the internet!!!

 

[telstar_1]

Part of why they're now so doggone cheap

 

[John2021]

Part of why they're now so doggone cheap

YEP they spy on you!!! they take a hit on the t.v. and then they collect your data and sell it to who ever!!! you can still buy a stupid tv but it will cost you

 

[Juan]

YEP they spy on you!!! they take a hit on the t.v. and then they collect your data and sell it to who ever!!! you can still buy a stupid tv but it will cost you

Kinda like a satellite and cable box

 

[John2021]

Kinda like a satellite and cable box

yep!!! everything spies on you today lol... even the content owners spy on cable and sat boxes to see what everyones watching then they bump those channels into higher tier packages

 

[telstar_1]

That's why I don't connect DiSH to internet. Of course everyone can see where it's going, which is all to streaming, which is its own can of worms.

So the "telescreens" that were everywhere in 1984 playing propaganda whilst spying on those they could see have arrived just a few decades late

 

[navychop]

Naw. We just kept it quiet. Nobody noticed until recently….

 

[Foxbat]

The Texas AG is doing something about this:

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

TVs made by Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL are part of a ‘mass surveillance system,’ Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges.

www.theverge.com

 

[meStevo]

LG letting people remove the Copilot link (it was never 'installed' to anyone's TVs) btw.

 

[primestar31]

The Texas AG is doing something about this:

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

TVs made by Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL are part of a ‘mass surveillance system,’ Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges.

www.theverge.com

I turned all that OFF on my TCL Roku tv sets. It can be done, at least on those. I just re-checked them the other day, and it remains off.

 

[navychop]

On my Sony, and presumably many others, you can turn that feature off.

Doesn't matter. Communicates anyway. So you just block the address at the router. I did that. But when I changed equipment, I never got around to redoing it.

I don't really care if they catch me watching Debbie Does Toledo.

 

[telstar_1]

But they might catch you watching PBS...