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Smart TVs: People Use AI to Make Them Dumb Again
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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: TechCrunch.
Kenji MoonfieldSome smart TV owners are using AI agents to strip out ads, tracking and bloatware, and take their sets back, TechCrunch reports.
Chip DarnellSo they're making the TV dumber on purpose? I love that. Where do I sign up?
Kenji MoonfieldYou give an AI agent your TV's model number, and it works out what to delete.
Kenji MoonfieldOne developer's run removed twenty-five packages from a Xiaomi set.
Chip DarnellTwenty-five? What was in there, a whole mall?
Kenji MoonfieldOne user shrank the launcher from one hundred ninety-two megabytes to eighty-three. Another one reported a bricked TV, so that's a risk.
Chip DarnellBricked. So the TV became a very large, very quiet picture frame, and honestly, that sounds peaceful.
Kenji MoonfieldThe creator of one project says a few thousand people ran the same prompt in two days.
Kenji MoonfieldSome said Claude refused until the prompts got more complicated. So now it takes a very smart AI to make a TV dumb.
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