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$30,000,000 AI Is Hiding a Scam

Coffeezilla · 4.9M views · 2024-05-21 · 17:11

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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.

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2024–2024

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sadeshmukh · 2024-07 · Recommendation

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

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seanhunter · 2024-07 · Recommendation

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 etc and a bunch of other stuff which turned out not to be true. [1] depending on your point of view. I would encourage people to watch [VIDEO] and [LINK] and do whatever personal research and make their own minds up

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stmonty · 2024-06 · Recommendation

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

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