You don’t have to be smart to use a broom but you have to be stupid to buy a vacuum with microphone and camera.
User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller
Submitted 12 hours ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 hours ago
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 56 minutes ago
connected to a server outside of your house
atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Or just ignorant.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 minutes ago
honestly, in today’s world and in this context, it’s often the same thing
if you’re ignorant of what these smart devices are doing in [current year], you’re almost definitely stupid for choosing to be ignorant of it. it’s been a whole decade of this stuff now. you’ve been exposed to it, and you’ve made the chose to remain ignorant.
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
broom gang broom gang
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Shame they didn’t get access to the analytics. It would be very interesting to see the extent these data collected are used.
For instance, training voice AI on customer data. Or voice printing to make a location map of uses and selling that data. Or customizing ads that show up on their devices based on what’s in the home, etc etc
suodrazah@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“AI Strategist” <vomit>
Chick0nPlayz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s a tuff number boiii
Bazell@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Ranulph@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
Its a pretty good example of things you can do with Claude.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 hours ago
The big concern should be DJI having access to cameras and microphones in who knows how many millions of households.
whaleross@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The bigger concern should be that this is how badly coded and how little concern there is about security there is with smart appliances in people’s homes.
Working as a consultant and seeing the code that runs online services made me realize how fucked up everything is and to accept that nobody knows or cares about what they are doing with other people’s integrity. AI in coding is barely making a dent in it.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 hours ago
That’s less of a concern over the corporate actors who have infiltrated our houses.
Even if it was completely secure, they would still have access to this information and that would be by utilised by a state in some capacity against us.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
We should probably take “engineering” out of software titles.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
‘Company deliberately has control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while selling them to unsuspecting general public’