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Is your Samsung tv spying on U? Ep 3452 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary McCants.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining here on episode 3452. Cyber News
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  Speaker 1: says that they have also spoken to more than 100
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  Speaker 1: AI researchers to see whether they think the technology is going.
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  Speaker 1: Roughly two-thirds agreed that AI could pose a major risk
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  Speaker 1: to humanity within five years. and almost half call for
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  Speaker 1: the development to be slowed down. And an important caveat,
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  Speaker 1: many believe harm will likely be a result of human
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  Speaker 1: misuse rather than AI acting on its own. Companies keep
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  Speaker 1: pouring money into AI at the expense of jobs. Microsoft
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  Speaker 1: offered buyouts to around 60,000 employees to contain its massive
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  Speaker 1: AI investments. and what was described as layoffs in disguise.
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  Speaker 1: Will the returns ever justify the spending? Well, will it?
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  Speaker 1: Samsung is accused of spying on users and then sharing
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  Speaker 1: data with 400-plus partners. Samsung may be secretly spying on you.
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  Speaker 1: by collecting insane amount of data from built-in microphones, connected device,
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  Speaker 1: and even AI you didn't know about. Reverse engineer Log4J
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  Speaker 1: started noticing that the Samsung 225 TV was delivering weirdly
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  Speaker 1: targeted ads, something the user found unsettling. Samsung TVs can
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  Speaker 1: exploit connected devices. If your smart TV doesn't have a microphone,
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  Speaker 1: you're still not safe as Samsung has a workaround. The
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  Speaker 1: TVs will search for connected devices like a sound bar
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  Speaker 1: or a Bluetooth connected device and use them to listen
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  Speaker 1: to you instead. People on X pointed out that certain
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  Speaker 1: retailers in the UK offer a deal that includes a
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  Speaker 1: free Samsung sound bar. AI-enabled user profiling. The company does
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  Speaker 1: this through AI as a neural network tracks users' behavior
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  Speaker 1: based on the videos they watch and the ads they skip. This,
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  Speaker 1: along with all the other data, is then shared with
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  Speaker 1: Samsung and over 400 of its partners. Say what? Log4j
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  Speaker 1: also discovered a back-end remote management feature called Arm & Demon,
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  Speaker 1: in which Samsung support can remotely access your device for
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  Speaker 1: temporary diagnostics. This feature, along with the other invasive mechanisms,
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  Speaker 1: was all found on a legitimate EU Samsung TV, according
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  Speaker 1: to Log4J. CyberNews has reached out to Log4J for the
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  Speaker 1: full report and to Samsung for comment. Hackers' OpenAI accounts
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  Speaker 1: shut down after exposing Samsung. While live-tweeting the process, the
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  Speaker 1: hackers shared an email they received from OpenAI, which banned
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  Speaker 1: Log4j from using OpenAI, citing cyber abuse as grounds for
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  Speaker 1: account deactivation. What's strange is that the hacker claims they
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  Speaker 1: never used OpenAI to exploit will find vulnerabilities and only
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  Speaker 1: use as tools for reverse engineering work. Looking to get
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom of things, Log4j said they discovered that
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  Speaker 1: the tech giant designed a smart TV to include features
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  Speaker 1: that allow the company to spy on its users. Within
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  Speaker 1: the code, Log4j found a package called Always on Voice,
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  Speaker 1: which they described as Always on Hot Mic. functionality that
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  Speaker 1: uses the device's built-in microphone to capture sounds from the
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  Speaker 1: user's environment. Say what? Yes, you heard it all. But
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  Speaker 1: did you know about it?