THE VIDEO SHELF · rabbit r1 scam investigation
$30,000,000 AI Is Hiding a Scam
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN threads on the Rabbit R1 point to it as an exposé on the company's history and operation.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Coffeezilla
- Topic
- rabbit r1 scam investigation
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
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These two videos by the YouTuber CoffeeZilla seem relevant for exposing more about the R1 and its operation: [VIDEO] [LINK]
stmonty on Hacker News · 2024-06
In Rabbit R1 It's a ScamSee 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.
sadeshmukh on Hacker News · 2024-07
In The Rabbit R1 has been logging users' chats – with no way to wipe themAs 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 …
seanhunter on Hacker News · 2024-07
In Jailbreaking RabbitOS
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