> It's a locked down device running closed source software, and it's impossible to know what it really does behind the user's back.
That’s hardly true, analyzing binaries is not significantly more difficult without access to the source code. Even if you did have the source code, any serious analysis would focus on the binaries as seemingly innocuous code can be transformed into something else by a compiler.
If we’re talking about some deep hardware level backdoors, you presumably don’t have your own fab and therefore are stuck with trusting whoever you get hardware from.
Correct. This actually falsifies OP's argument. Compared to OP's list from 2 years ago [1] ChatGPT omits ".search" but it says it's not a TLD anymore. GPT also finds 2 near misses, picture(s) and code(s). It does this in 10 minutes with 33 reasoning steps. It verifies them and provides citations in this time. Also checks OpenAI policy documents for some reason.
> ChatGPT omits ".search" but it says it's not a TLD anymore
Not sure where you got that information from (can't find it in any of the 3 ChatGPT logs here), and I'm pretty sure that it's false.
It's still a part of the official IANA list[0] that it referenced in my chat log , and from what I can tell there has been no delisting of that TLD. (It's always been a niche Google-only TLD, though).
From all indications it doesn't pick up `search` because it doesn't recognize it as an HTML element.
That’s hardly true, analyzing binaries is not significantly more difficult without access to the source code. Even if you did have the source code, any serious analysis would focus on the binaries as seemingly innocuous code can be transformed into something else by a compiler.
If we’re talking about some deep hardware level backdoors, you presumably don’t have your own fab and therefore are stuck with trusting whoever you get hardware from.