The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog
In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.
The good side of this is that there's a hijack-able data stream that anyone can use to poison LLM training sets, and they can't do shit because it's on *your* network.
@Hex Personally, I'd just flatout refuse to use/buy a "Smart TV"…
I have a stupid panel and it works fine!
https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116706856726937559
But if *I* hijack *their* devices it's a "felony."
https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/
@kkarhan Annoy them by buying a smart tv and then denying it access to the internet in your routers rules 😎
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Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.