Who knows. They put WiFi in everything now, so some crazy person will sign up for some hypothetical LG Smart Monitor so they can get an app that lets them see if their monitor is on or not when they are gone. Don't underestimate the amount of people that will do dumb things like that.
My refrigerator has some sort of WiFi option despite so screen or anything. It's not a complicated refrigerator, I don't even know what the WiFi would offer me as I've never connected it. But it gives them their data, and we've seen examples of AC thermostats being adjusted by the power companies before, so I can just see "we turned off your fridge because our AI datacenter needed the power, cough. erm., we mean for climate change."
The washer/dryer set I just bought has the same thing going on. The salesman told me that it connects to an app that will tell you when your laundry is done, as if that meaningfully adds to the jingle it does when it's finished. It also has an "AI wash" mode that I assume requires wifi. I assume it's there to steal retards' data because the normal cycle works just fine. I also noticed that the refrigerator that came with my condo also hooks up to wifi. I don't even know how to hook it up and I certainly don't plan on finding out.
Don't worry: If it can connect to the internet wirelessly, but you don't manually set it up, it still will send it, just more subtly. Perhaps a direct Starlink connection it auto-picks-up, or a cellular tower internet the company made a deal with: All your data is in text files, it doesn't take much bandwidth to send.
Who knows. They put WiFi in everything now, so some crazy person will sign up for some hypothetical LG Smart Monitor so they can get an app that lets them see if their monitor is on or not when they are gone. Don't underestimate the amount of people that will do dumb things like that.
My refrigerator has some sort of WiFi option despite so screen or anything. It's not a complicated refrigerator, I don't even know what the WiFi would offer me as I've never connected it. But it gives them their data, and we've seen examples of AC thermostats being adjusted by the power companies before, so I can just see "we turned off your fridge because our AI datacenter needed the power, cough. erm., we mean for climate change."
The washer/dryer set I just bought has the same thing going on. The salesman told me that it connects to an app that will tell you when your laundry is done, as if that meaningfully adds to the jingle it does when it's finished. It also has an "AI wash" mode that I assume requires wifi. I assume it's there to steal retards' data because the normal cycle works just fine. I also noticed that the refrigerator that came with my condo also hooks up to wifi. I don't even know how to hook it up and I certainly don't plan on finding out.
Don't worry: If it can connect to the internet wirelessly, but you don't manually set it up, it still will send it, just more subtly. Perhaps a direct Starlink connection it auto-picks-up, or a cellular tower internet the company made a deal with: All your data is in text files, it doesn't take much bandwidth to send.