Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by campuscodi » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by endymion-light » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

While cool and slightly scary news - Samsung TV's have been incredibly hackable for the past decade, wouldn't be surprised if GPT2 with access to a browser could hack a Samsung!

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by Razengan » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

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Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by reactordev » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC

The trick here was providing the firmware source code so it could see your vulnerabilities.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by valleyer » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:10 AM UTC

endymion-light wrote: post #2

While cool and slightly scary news - Samsung TV's have been incredibly hackable for the past decade, wouldn't be surprised if GPT2 with access to a browser could hack a Samsung!

This is some serious revisionist history. GPT-2 wasn't instruction-following or even conversational.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by zx8080 » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:12 AM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #3

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What is going on there? What double s?

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by rossvc » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:15 AM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #3

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Is that really OpenAI/Codex? It reads like Opus 4.6 1M when it reaches ~400k tokens.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by pjc50 » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:16 AM UTC

reactordev wrote: post #4

The trick here was providing the firmware source code so it could see your vulnerabilities.

That's a pretty big gimme!

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by cbg0 » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #3

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Are you using 5.4 xhigh reasoning? I've found it overcomplicates some things needlessly, try "high" and see if it helps.

Re: Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

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Post by patrickmcnamara » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

valleyer wrote: post #5

endymion-light wrote: post #2

While cool and slightly scary news - Samsung TV's have been incredibly hackable for the past decade, wouldn't be surprised if GPT2 with access to a browser could hack a Samsung!

This is some serious revisionist history. GPT-2 wasn't instruction-following or even conversational.

Hyperbole.