‘Gaslit me so hard’ — Coffeezilla renews his assault on Rabbit R1 AI

YouTuber and investigator Coffeezilla has adopted up on his preliminary blast aimed on the firm answerable for the Rabbit R1 synthetic intelligence (AI) gadget.

The net character, actual title Stephen Findeisen, who usually takes a deep dive into numerous influencer scams, turned his ire on Rabbit Incorporation for what he described as a product “constructed on a rip-off”.

In response, the corporate performed down Coffeezilla’s findings however as a substitute of allaying considerations or offering solutions, the rebuttal solely provoked additional scrutiny and unhealthy publicity.

Partially two of his investigation, Coffeezilla commenced the 18-minute-long YouTube broadcast with the next intro:

“This tech firm gaslit me so exhausting about their earlier rip-off that I made a decision to research their present venture, Rabbit (R1), and what I discovered was surprising.”

Particularly, he wished to interrupt down what precisely was the AI mannequin throughout the Rabbit R1 gadget, as purported by the corporate. It was claimed the AI embedded throughout the gadget, referred to as Lamb, may very well be a life assistant which official publicity depicted as telling it, “Start my morning routine, order me an Uber and discover me a good podcast to go the time, oh and inform everyone that I may be late.” 

It might additionally supposedly test the fridge and reorder the substances out of your final meal. The pitch seemed to be a powerful one because the advertising and marketing instruments secured over $20 million value of pre-orders.

However ‘Lamb as marketed doesn’t exist’

Coffeezilla went on to excoriate Rabbit Incorporation, not on whether or not they have been pushing an excellent or unhealthy product, however on the AI credentials of Lamb.

“A group investigation has revealed that Rabbit just isn’t really utilizing a brand new foundational AI mannequin in any respect, it’s really chatGPT with some hardcoded scripts, which is humorous as a result of Jesse (Lyu, RabbitR1 founder) says Rabbit is quicker than chatGPT.”

He continued, “What actually upsets me just isn’t that it’s unhealthy (Rabbit R1), it’s that the core promoting level of this product is constructed on a lie and that lie is the Lamb.”

“I  assume the perfect factor you might say at this level about Jesse and Rabbit is that they vastly over-promised and under-delivered, the worst you might say is (that) that is shopper fraud.” 

Coffeezilla punctuated his salvo with a declare that he spoke to an worker of Rabbit and on the situation of anonymity they said that “Lamb as marketed doesn’t exist.”

The investigator reached out to the corporate for a closing response and the feedback which included an announcement (shared on the video) learn, “You aren’t fascinated about taking a balanced or goal method, or in working with us in good religion” and “Rabbit stands behind its product”.

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