Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar's mic if the TV doesn't have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.

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[–] 1 point 4 days ago (2 children)

Again, you already replied to the comment where I explained that. As if it takes explaining. They knew that people would endlessly flip out, so they did this in secret, which cost more money and did not last. Why wouldn't they prefer the effortless public goodwill of dumping all those PDFs on Archive.org? A couple gigabytes of uploads would have turned this cloak-and-dagger affair into a public relations campaign.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago* (1 child)

    Amazon doesn't care about public goodwill unless it affects their bottom line. It isn't affecting their bottom line, because despite people being outraged over the destruction of rare books, nobody AFAIK is organizing a boycott. Making the PDFs publicly available would also allow their rivals to use them for training data.

    The idea that Amazon would upload anything to archive.org is absurd. Why would they expend any effort to make a handful of people happy? You're thinking about what you would do if you were Amazon.

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    "Which cost more money" is their bottom line.

    I'm treating them as greedy and manipulative - you're treating them like cartoon supervillains.

    Do you think the constant hue and cry over "they're shredding books!!!" has no impact on their operations? Like it's somehow disconnected from the surprisingly effective backlash over data centers? It's certainly making anti-AI clickbait highly profitable, if every fucking tabloid blog takes a turn to rehash the story.

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