People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSome smart TV owners are using AI agents to strip out ads, tracking and bloatware, and take their sets back, TechCrunch reports.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo they're making the TV dumber on purpose? I love that. Where do I sign up?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou give an AI agent your TV's model number, and it works out what to delete.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOne developer's run removed twenty-five packages from a Xiaomi set.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwenty-five? What was in there, a whole mall?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOne user shrank the launcher from one hundred ninety-two megabytes to eighty-three. Another one reported a bricked TV, so that's a risk.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBricked. So the TV became a very large, very quiet picture frame, and honestly, that sounds peaceful.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe creator of one project says a few thousand people ran the same prompt in two days.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSome said Claude refused until the prompts got more complicated. So now it takes a very smart AI to make a TV dumb.