{"id":193966,"date":"2025-12-20T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/193966\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:30:07","slug":"lg-tvs-unremovable-copilot-shortcut-is-the-least-of-smart-tvs-ai-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/193966\/","title":{"rendered":"LG TVs\u2019 unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs\u2019 AI problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Copilot will still be integrated into Tizen OS, and Samsung appears eager to push chatbots into TVs, including by launching Perplexity\u2019s first TV app<\/a>. Amazon, which released Fire TVs with Alexa+<\/a> this year, is also exploring putting chatbots into TVs.<\/p>\n

After the backlash LG faced this week, companies may reconsider installing AI apps on people\u2019s smart TVs. A better use of large language models in TVs may be as behind-the-scenes tools to improve TV watching. People generally don\u2019t buy smart TVs to make it easier to access chatbots.<\/p>\n

But this development is still troubling for anyone who doesn\u2019t want an AI chatbot<\/a> in their TV at all.<\/p>\n

Some people don\u2019t want chatbots in their TVs<\/p>\n

Subtle integrations of generative AI that make it easier for people to do things like figure out the name of \u201cthat movie\u201d may have practical use, but there are reasons to be wary of chatbot-wielding TVs.<\/p>\n

Chatbots add another layer of complexity to understanding how a TV tracks user activity. With a chatbot involved, smart TV owners will be subject to complicated smart TV privacy policies<\/a> and terms of service, as well as the similarly verbose rules of third-party AI companies. This will make it harder for people to understand what data they\u2019re sharing with companies, and there\u2019s already serious concern about the boundaries smart TVs are pushing to track users, including without consent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chatbots can also contribute to smart TV bloatware. Unwanted fluff, like games, shopping shortcuts, and flashy ads, already disrupts people who just want to watch TV.<\/p>\n

LG\u2019s Copilot web app is worthy of some grousing, but not necessarily because of the icon that users will eventually be able to delete. The more pressing issue is the TV industry\u2019s shift toward monetizing software<\/a> with user tracking and ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t already, now is a good time to check out our guide to breaking free from smart TV ads and tracking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Copilot will still be integrated into Tizen OS, and Samsung appears eager to push chatbots into TVs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-193966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}