Unusual and Bizarre Uses and Behaviors of AI

[Johnnycomelately]

This is presented as a feel good story, since he is said to have communicated the vulnerability to the robot vacuum maker, Chinese company DJI. DJI has said that they have since fixed it.

I guess we are safe now, from having our homes cam’d and mic’d and map’d by the CPPCC.

Crazy exploit. Am guessing it won’t be fully plugged, either by DJI’s stated action likely being a lie, or because other various smarter evil-worker nerds can access it. Smart Homes are compromised homes.

I’m of half a mind to subscribe to some A.I. I realize that that may present temptations to my ego, but I feel confident in my growing ability to discern and dissent. I’ve always loved using tools, and these ones seem intruiging. Wish me luck? — not yet. I’ll tell y’all when I take that baby step.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.

MACK DEGEURIN
PUBLISHED FEB 21, 2026

A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.

While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries. The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools, all without their owners ever knowing.