$30,000,000 AI Is Hiding a Scam

Coffeezilla · 4.9M views · 2024 · 17:11

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN threads on the Rabbit R1 point to it as an exposé on the company's history and operation.

What it is

Coffeezilla investigates the company behind the Rabbit R1 AI gadget, alleging a shady history as a crypto and NFT startup and questioning its large action model claims.

Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2024 to 2024.

What Hacker News said

Recommends stmonty · 2024-06 · on “Rabbit R1 It's a Scam”

These two videos by the YouTuber CoffeeZilla seem relevant for exposing more about the R1 and its operation: [this video] [LINK]

Recommends sadeshmukh · 2024-07 · on “The Rabbit R1 has been logging users' chats – with no way to wipe them”

See this video by Coffeezilla: [this video] It's a bit clickbaity, but turns out Rabbit was a crypto-nft-ai buzzword company with a very shady history.

Recommends seanhunter · 2024-07 · on “Jailbreaking RabbitOS”

As I understand it, you can think of Rabbit's "stack" as a prompt to a standard llm (I think they just used openAI but I could be wrong) to understand what you want, and then a bunch of (brittle) selenium scripts to go call various websites to do the thing. The llm is there to understand that you've said "what's the weather?" not, say "call me an uber", and then to collate the responses from potentially several calls to websites and produce a natural language response. There is a layer of upsell/hustle/scam[1] on top of that where they said they had a "large action model" which learned your preferences and understood how all these websites worked sematically so the actions would be robust et

Cites ffsm8 · 2024-05 · on “HumaneAI pin maker selling itself for $1B”

Coffezilla made a video on this company and their CEO. It makes total sense in that context. (That they're trying to make a quick exit before further things come to light) [this video]

Cites VTimofeenko · 2024-06 · on “Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded”

If claims from this[1] video by Coffezilla are to be believed, the r1 is not their first questionable project. [this video]