LG TV keeps turning itself on and opening a web browser on its own
generativist · x · 2026-10-24
The author recounts how the nanny came in to say their LG TV kept turning itself on — each time attempting to open a web browser. He jokes to a critic of his "distributed TV borg thesis": "I am joining the collective."
A spooky-yet-funny smart home moment of a TV apparently misbehaving or possibly being compromised, presented as an AI-adjacent industry gag.
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