LG AI television will "listen to me and care for me" 🤡🖕🖕🖕AI bubble needs to pop

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Hey everybody, how's it going? Hope

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you're having a lovely day. Welcome to

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today's episode of How You're Getting

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[ __ ] I'm your host, Lewis Rossman,

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and this is my co-host, Blackberry, the

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Kitten. Today, what we're going to be

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going over is LG's website for some of

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their Think Home products. For those who

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have not been following the channel for

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a while, a few years ago, I decided to

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upgrade my cheap old piece of [ __ ] TV

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that I've been using for almost 15 years

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to a flagship LG G3 OLED. And after

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buying it, they rewarded me with this.

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It says here right inside the menu, "Do

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not sell my personal information." And

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that option was turned off by default on

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a television that cost over $3,600. This

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is not the cheapest TV. This was the

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flagship television. And this is

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something that's been getting a lot more

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press recently. Texas's attorney general

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recently sued every major television

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manufacturer for essentially being

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spyware and literally watching

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everything you're doing with your

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television. This is not something that

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is secret. This is something that is

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wellnown. If you dig into the terms of

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service, you will find that the

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television is literally taking captures

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and screenshots of everything you're

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doing on the television all the time and

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reporting it back and selling your

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information. this crescendo to maximum

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ridiculousness after I got this email a

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few years ago which I shared with you

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where somebody's LG washing machine was

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selling their personal data and I will

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include all the information on that case

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here so that you can read everything

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that it was on the screen at the time

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that the gentleman was clicking agree he

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did send me screenshots of this and I

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shared it with all of you. So what are

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they even doing with all that data

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they've been collecting from my

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television and my washing machine

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apparently using it to train their AI.

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It says that they have appliances with

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affectionate intelligence. They have an

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empathetic and caring AI. They say that

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their devices are optimized to learn and

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analyze your physical and emotional life

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patterns. They say that it listens to

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your commands and senses your

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surroundings to deliver the life's good

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experience in every moment. They detect

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temperature, humidity, air quality,

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occupancy, and intuitively optimize

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their performance to match your

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preferences. LG markets as an LG AI TV

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that recognizes you, adapts to you, and

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cares for you. [ __ ] you're a

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television. You're a clanker inside of a

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television. Your job is not to care for

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me. The Rock says, "Know your role and

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SHUT YOUR MOUTH."

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>> Your job is to shut the [ __ ] up, stop

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stealing my data, stop reporting in

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everything I watch, and play back my

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illegally obtained MKV files of all my

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Black Mirror Blu-rays that I obtained by

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breaking section 121 of the DMCA and

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ripping them with this BDR213 that has a

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version of firmware that you don't like

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in full 4K. That is your only [ __ ]

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job. My job is to take care of myself,

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not you. I'm the only one who takes care

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of me. The only other person that I

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would allow to take care of me is my

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girlfriend because she is a human and

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you are a clanker. Or maybe she's just a

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really good spy bot sent by Tim Cook. If

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she is, good [ __ ] job. But in all

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seriousness here, your job is not to

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[ __ ] take care of me. You are a

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television. The LG Kitchen page lists

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analyzing, optimizing, adapting, and

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listening and responding in real time

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for seamless living. I don't want

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something that sells my data to other

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people to be listening to everything I

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say in my [ __ ] kitchen. That's not

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what people that care for me do. People

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that care for me do not sell my personal

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data and end user license agreement

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roofing me with new terms that spy on me

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that sell my data that if I don't click

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accept to I guess I can't just use the

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product that I bought and paid for. The

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people that care for me in my life that

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I allow to care for me do not come into

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my home and take back the Christmas

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presents they gave me 2 years ago unless

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I sign a new terms of service that

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allows them to listen to every [ __ ]

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thing that I do and sell that data to

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other people. That's not what people who

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care about me do. [ __ ] you for using

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this terminology. In 2013, NBC News

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reported LG smart TVs transmitted what

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users watched, kept sending data after

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user switched to collection setting off,

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sent the data unencrypted, and in one

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test transmitted the names of files

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saved on a connected USB drive to LG. In

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2017, Checkpoint disclosed the home hack

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vulnerability. A flaw let it researchers

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take over an LG account knowing only the

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victim's email address and control the

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user's appliances, including the live

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video camera built into LG's humbot

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robot vacuum. Checkpoint said LG fixed

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it in an update. In May 11th of 2026,

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the Texas Attorney General announced a

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settlement with LG requiring a pop-up

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disclosure about viewing data collection

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and an opt out. People who care about me

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do not sell personal information on me

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that they collect without my consent by

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default. That is not what the word care

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means, you gaslighting [ __ ]

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This is not the future I want.

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Be honest with me in the comments. Is

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this the future that other people want?

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Am I in a bubble where I don't realize

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that other people just don't care about

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this? Are you excited to get AI that

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listens to you in your kitchen? That

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sends everything you say and do off to a

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company server that can sell that data

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to anybody that they please. Am I the

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crazy one? I'm not crazy. You're crazy.

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That's it for today and as always, I

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hope you learned something. I'll see you

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in the next video. Bye now.

Interactive Summary

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In this video, Louis Rossman criticizes the invasive data collection practices of LG's smart home products, specifically focusing on their high-end TVs and appliances. He highlights that these devices often sell user data, track behavior, and record information—even in private spaces like kitchens—while disguising these practices under the guise of 'empathetic' AI that 'cares' for the user. Rossman argues that this is fundamentally deceptive, pointing to historical security issues and legal actions against LG regarding privacy, and questions why such invasive monitoring is becoming the industry standard.