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Fortune
Sasha Rogelberg

‘I can't believe it's already broken’: Samsung customers are complaining to the company over spoiled food after an update bricked AI smart fridges

A man in a blue short points to the display screen on a Samsung refrigerator. (Credit: Jason Ogulnik/picture alliance—Getty Images)

More than a century ago, Hollywood legend Buster Keaton directed and starred in The Electric House, a silent film in which a home abundant with rewired electrical gadgets causes chaos for its visitors. But what was a short comedy of yesterday has become a prescient depiction of a contemporary problem: smart appliances that aren’t acting smart.

Samsung customers flooded an online community with dozens of comments this week about issues they’ve experienced with certain models of their not-so-smart AI-powered smart refrigerators.

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