S @serge

Make your smart TV dumb again

This article talks ostensibly about LLMs being used to make your smart TV dumb, but the larger point is getting rid of the things in your television that you don't want to be there and having it do what you bought it to do.

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunch Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs. techcrunch.com
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K @kolev

Hopefully the lawsuit with Walmart/Vizio succeeds and source will be published.

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S @serge

The source alone is insufficient because of Tivoization.

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K @kolev

Yeah, that is a problem. Not sure how to prevent that.

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S @serge

You can't really prevent it. Large electronic manufacturers have come to rely on the profit from spyware and advertisement. They make far more money from selling this than the electronics themselves, which are then just delivery mechanisms.

It doesn't behoove them to sell a consumer product that's not subsidized in that way because a vast majority of consumers would never buy it.

It is possible to buy these products in the form of commercial displays. They're much more expensive and hard to get ahold of.

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K @kolev

I'll just give up and not buy a TV. It's better for a healthy home life anyway! Haha.

I say this half seriously.

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