OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly blocked REA tool reverse engineering privacy-invading smart TVs
kroggens · reddit · 2026-10-25
A Reddit post claims that REA ("Reverse Engineer Anything") by AbhinavXJ, while attempting to reverse engineer smart TVs suspected of spying on users, was blocked: reportedly Claude refused the requests a day later, with OpenAI models similarly refusing. The author frames this as an argument for open weights ("time for the pebbles to own the weights"), highlighting the tension between safety guardrails and legitimate security research. Secondhand account with a link to the original tweet; unconfirmed by either lab.
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