That helps my cause, but it turns out (watching the video now) that those TVs are still recording full audio clips, transcripts, and advertising categories as well as other categorized sounds it hears like hidden ad noises from other devices etc. So as long as it never gets plugged into the networ...

If you have to keep it disconnected and use it as a dumb monitor, I don't see any problem with that.

Oh, and I just paused right before they talked about connecting automatically to open networks like common public wifis, or guest channels on most consumer wifi routers. So if you live within range of a normie, chances are their router has a default "guest" network enabled. Companies like T-Mobile, ...