The Rabbit R1, AI’s First Big Scam?

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Ignacio de Gregorio
8 min readJun 4, 2024
Generated by author using GPT-4o

In my weekly newsletter, I recently discussed Coffeezilla, a famous YouTuber focused on uncovering scams, and his two-part series about the Rabbit R1, an AI-based hardware conceived as a ‘smartphone killer.’

However, despite being considered one of the hottest pieces of AI tech in the world, Coffeezilla claims it’s all a lie in what could be the first grand AI scam, based on the fact that, according to the famous ‘scammer-hunter’ YouTuber, the AI behind it ‘is not AI,’ which, funnily enough, as you’ll see in a minute, is not entirely true either.

To avoid confusion, I thought I could clarify this whole thing. Still, the R1 may very well be a scam, but for a worser reason.

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