Rabbit R1 and the SCAM of AI

[@Feli_Heli_]

I remember learning Photoshop in school about 8 or 9 years ago, and learning how to use the content aware fill tool, which they are now suddenly calling AI. It's all very silly.

[@Puerile.]

Tagging everything with "AI" is just the same as labelling everything as a "smart device "back in 2012. Except this time, they're using the words completely wrong. Also, I just saw Coffeezilla's video on the Rabbit R1 yesterday. It ain't just half-baked. It has the wrong ingredients and is mixed VERY poorly. And, when their CEO is drilled about their product, he just responds like an outright scammer backed in a corner.

[@YggdrasilMedia]

I'm starting to feel optimistic too. There's been a growing backlash against AI following some massive blunders recently. Vimeo put out a statement today affirming they won't train AI models on user content or allow companies to scrape their data. I've never been too worried about AI outcompeting human beings (at least in the creative sphere), the real concern was if companies decided these tools were good enough and started downsizing their workforce, reducing quality and overburdening fewer (and likely underpaid) positions. Thankfully that hasn't proven to be a good business strategy and with public opinion turning against AI, it doesn't look like it will be anytime soon.

[@spencers-adventures]

I think the other risk we have of AI overtaking human work in certain fields is going to come not from AI becoming better than humans, but when companies ask for such unthinking robotic output from creative people that the work is indiscernible from machine, lacking any creativity. It’ll be the doing of corporations, not AI “rising up.” Thanks for the comment!

[@bradm-h1842]

This is one of my favourite videos of you in a while. Great insights communicated very well.

[@armouros]

hi spencer.i worked in a 9 person company making images and animation buttons and genril grafix. the company was hit with some finance issues nothing huge but big enuf to have a ripple efet. my boss was playing around withe AI at the time. this was about harf a year ago end of 2023. so when thay had to cut some cots i was let go. im fine got some savings . my point is AI isint going to take away peoples jobs but the AI bubble has made bosses think we are les valuable. bosses are going to be the ones takeing jobs. its going to be a cupple of years befor the same companys that are carintley firing hundrids of people will realaise those people did somthing.

[@pattelino9466]

That would certainly be an interesting turn. What if AI will get viewed as being a bubble in 1-2 years and the majority of people loses interest in it for a long time

[@spencers-adventures]

Thanks for sharing your experience - I’m sorry to hear you were in fact impacted by AI. You’re right that it’s definitely causing people’s work to be devalued in the eyes of employers, especially ones who don’t truly understand their employees’ contributions. Appreciate the comment!

[@hylianfire]

I view the rise of modern AI as being uncontrolled, due to being newer. Humans always find a way. AI can be used to help and assist. It's a man-made tool. But fear if the unknown is overwhelming.

[@sunnohh]

Its knowable, knwon and dogshit linear algebra

[@chinesetomcruise]

Really great video! I've been thinking a lot about "AI" recently but the idea that it may just be, for the most part, yet another marketing scam, didn't come to mind.

[@jorgerangel2390]

I am a soft dev, and even here AI is not only not capable of replacing us, it also is not capable of being a mediocre developer by itself, and no improvement has been seen in any of the gpt versions in that regard. Maybe it has a lot more examples but the moment you ask it to make something that does not exist it breaks

[@petesime]

I was glad to see you were interviewed on Radio New Zealand.

[@spencers-adventures]

That’s awesome you heard it!

[@jonathanmeyer1164]

I've never really been worried about the "threat" of AI. As far as I can tell, most of it is nothing more than a fancy search engine. As for the generative art AI, I had a feeling people would use it for nefarious purposes from the very beginning. As a tool for concept art, it can be a great way to start fleshing out ideas. But to just share it as the art itself is very disingenuous. Dont know about you, Spencer, or even if you see them, but I see this same style post so often, that it makes me dislike generative AI even more. Pop culture cartoon characters, in the style of another pop culture artist. I can only take just so many posts about Dragon Ball Z in the style of Studio Ghibli before I get annoyed, and think of how people are abusing this tool for likes and shares.

[@spencers-adventures]

Right with you on this take Jonathan! I’m so sick of seeing all this AI “art” as well. I think that’s where we’re going wrong, by lowering our expectations for what meets the criteria of “art” that machines can appear to compete with human creativity in the eyes of our society. If we don’t ask more of ourselves then we’ll eliminate the needs for ourselves in that choice. Thanks for the comment buddy!

[@joshuaalbert9437]

If the iPod were made today Genius mixes would be called AI mixes

[@EugeneHoverhand]

Teenage Engineering was involved with this thing right? No wonder it turned out to be a scam.

[@bradm-h1842]

What’s wrong with Teenage Engineering?

[@EugeneHoverhand]

@@bradm-h1842 They've been well known in the synthesizer market as a company that charges premium prices for very little features and cheap build quality.

[@martywarwick]

@@bradm-h1842Not that I think they are scammy - but I certainly like Teenage Engineering a lot less in recent years. The OP-1 was great, but they seem a bit pretentious and up their own ass now. Hard to put my finger on it..

[@cookiebuster652]

@@martywarwickwhat about the po-33 tho

[@electrictao5180]

We're off to see the Wizard of AI! Thanks Spencer.

[@wes_online]

I ordered one a while ago and admittedly - I’m hoping it gets some useful updates. A dedicated device that literally just queries the chatgpt api is actually something I want. Large language model stuff is my favorite way to make text right now. But I’ve been playing with text generation for a long time. It got way better very fast. That’s not wrong. It’s very good at “understanding” what a user wants it to write. It’s pretty good at writing it. There, at some point, must be a person that knows what they want it to do. I don’t think that ever changes.

[@sunnohh]

Chat gpt get me fired for plagarism

[@spencers-adventures]

Appreciate your sharing what you use it for buddy! I hope you get the updates too - it’s a bummer that the product has been such a letdown at this point 👎

[@DaveZula]

I agree that very often "AI" is a marketing buzzword, but I am still definitely alarmed at some of the recent developments in tech, whatever you call them. AI models of actual peoples voices and faces are too good to write off at this point, and that to me is very dystopian technology. So-called "smart drones" used in war that supposedly select their own targets? ...Let's just say I've never wished harder for a time machine.

[@spencers-adventures]

Yeah I agree there’s still a lot of aspects to feel worried about, just less about job replacement in my mind. The deepfake world really bothers me and it’s getting better every week it seems.

[@madisonsnovlogging]

Same with the term "metaverses". Metaverses are literally open-world MMORPGs but they just changed the name. Metaverses and AI are literally newer ways of saying Computers and open world MMORPGs. they are such scams. they literally repackaged the things we already have seen.

[@spencers-adventures]

100% I’ll take Elder Scrolls over some Metaverse any day of the week!

[@Deli5150]

After I got my rabbit r1 I was disappointed to see a lot of features I was looking forward to not ship with the product and having a lot of bugs when I was using it made my experience worse but seeing that they are constantly improving it with updates so frequently it gave me hope and at the moment I rarely see any bugs and I love some of the new features they added. Me personally I really love using it and I can’t wait to see what features get added next

[@toututu2993]

Damn AI fanboys are so desperate no matter how trash their dream devices are, they still have unlimited hope 😂

[@Deli5150]

@toututu2993 na man, I was just being honest about how I felt, but I’m now going to lie. I have stopped using my r1 and I kind of switched to using the Apple AI Siri. I’m really enjoying it, it’s making my everyday tasks easier.

[@tdnora]

Would you ever do a video on your thoughts on E-commerce? I feel like Shopify has allowed for so many e-commerce businesses to emerge yet it feels super overwhelming especially when it comes to the quality of certain products as well as the cost associated with shipping.

[@spencers-adventures]

I’ll have to do some more reading on the subject but I wouldn’t rule it out!

[@OJ3462]

😊 if something is too good to be true, it's probably not

[@bijanshahidi3933]

Thanks. I was also very close to lose $200.0. I ordered it but before it was promised to be shipped, I canceled it due to bad reviews. Worse it is to lose $700.0 on the other crap that Humane one the which it sends laser to your palm, and heats up your t-shirt

[@OlegWeb3]

Thank you Spencer 😢 I have a tech background and unforghenatly I do think you are right about the pyramid and scam

[@TheRelaxingRide]

good summary

[@RetroEdUK]

Good work for calling this one out.

[@spencers-adventures]

Thanks Ed!

[@V.Sensei]

Tell me I'm not crazy, but did anyone actually believe it could check your fridge? Like, how? Magic? Or does it come with a new fridge in the box?

[@ambiarock590]

100% it could and would be used to mine data about what you eat so you could be better profiled and advertised to better. People who use this AI crap are robbing themselves the opportunity to think for themselves.

[@spencers-adventures]

I was skeptical but I thought it could be doing a very quick version of what Google Lens does, but this thing can’t even do that lol

[@V.Sensei]

@@spencers-adventures But are you going to ask the rabbit to check the fridge, then take it to the fridge and scan everything?

[@spencers-adventures]

You’re right that it was definitely a fantastical situation that was probably never possible through the software they had. It’s definitely not able to do 99% of what they said it could

[@petefrenzel7296]

AI = Brute Force Processing, that's all it is.

[@RonAdams0459]

I agree with what you're saying, but the Rabbit R1 might be great for kids or elderly people, My grandma has issues seeing the small phone screen and doesn't need a smartphone, for someone like her the $200 R1 is fun to play with, same for kids.

[@spencers-adventures]

I think they still need to get it fixed before it’ll help those demographics. It’s got great potential for elderly folks but at this point I think it would be mor frustrating/confusing than anything. Hopefully they can get it more workable in the future though!

[@marlomitchell2761]

AI is useful specially when writing code but its not real AI because it's not actually intelligent.

[@jtaylor8059]

I too am glad I never bought one of those Rabbits! Thanks for doing this follow-up video…I was momentarily captivated by Jesse’s keynote address. Wait a minute?!? Is that a real Malkovich door behind your couch?!?

[@spencers-adventures]

It’s definitely a Malkovich door lol good to hear from you Jeff!

[@PCgamestech]

I agree with everything you said in your video, This whole AI thing has really gotten out of control that everyone is calling everything AI this AI that which isnt the same as what AI actually is and AI requires alot more computing power then some tiny device that speaks to a server in a cloud which AI requires alot more then just that it requires so much computing power and LLM that are in the 10s of billions and requiring minmial 10 H100s and tons of power and not everyone could use this all at once it would only be able to do 1 thing at a time not 10s of thousands of people asking at the exact sametime. The rabbit r1 is a complete scam and its is piggy backing off chatgpt and many other providers just to sqeeze by to be called AI which it isnt. Super computers do AI things not some 199 dollar hand held it doesnt do AI things it just does pre made scripts which isnt AI.

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

It is a scam like most products are. Yet if it isn't atleast convient people will not adapt to it. Convience. Just like convience stores are going to cost you more. Quick get me a pizza. that pizza or whatever. Will be more expensive. Plus propaganda is always a problem. Hard to avoid that in human history.

[@ordinaryman2299]

nothing an app cant do ???

[@clavius5734]

I honestly do not get what is so damning about the rabbit 'app' running on a smartphone. Like yeah, this could be an app, but the whole point of the R1 is that it isn't. It was supposed to be a gateway to the convenience of a smartphone, without the distraction potential of one. You would leave your phone at home, and just carry this gadget around. Anyway. On AI in general, the only real new-ish thing is the LLM and image generation algorithms. As you said, the main point of these algorithms is to make a chain of choices that mimics what humans have done in the past. It doesn't really 'think' in a human sense, as is evident in its lack of reflection on obviously illogical statements. Its a zombie masquerading as a person. All the other stuff you see paraded as AI is just rebadged machine learning. There is no chance of this 'taking over the world' in a nefarious way like Musk seems to think, maybe in the far future as some lobotomized paperclip optimizer maybe, who knows. There is real danger though in the short term though, because now it is trivial to produce incredible amounts of human-seeming text, it's easy to drown out new stories, spread misinformation. Add perfect fake pictures of that, and you end up with an internet where nothing can be trusted anymore. /rant

[@toututu2993]

The so called AI they are using now is very old tech. The only new about the thing is they called everything AI these days even automation as ai, resolution scaling ai, and what not. People need to stop getting brain washed and the AI hype will stop 😂

[@JayfkProductions876]

The Rabbit R1 isn't a Representation of AI overall, it's a Cash Grab Scam, a Box running an android app.

[@toututu2993]

AI is used for overhyping product everywhere

[@user-pp3dl8id7r]

Suggestion: Do the same topic again in 5 years and see if your POV is different.

[@sunnohh]

Having followed ai since the 90s and understanding it’s development from the 1950s onward. There will be no change whatsoever and this current bubble will seem cringe

[@toututu2993]

For a half price as Rabbit R-1. You get a good smartphone that can do more 😂

[@spencers-adventures]

Exactly lol!

[@jessicasretrolunacy]

I would like to be as optimistic as you, but at least in the writing world, the encroachment of AI is pretty bad. Plagiarism is out of control, and programs that used to be clearly defined tools, like Grammarly, are hyping up features that are replacing the craft of writing with outsourcing your thoughts to a program. Why bother learning how to write an email or properly, or how to convey nuance, tone, and insight in a research paper, a short story, et cetera. Even if this tech can't actually replace us outright it is being used as a crutch to not have to use critical thinking or develop proper communication skills. On top of that, "AI" is creating a field day for identity theft. The self publishing world of writing is getting ravaged by it.

[@spencers-adventures]

You’re right, there is still a lot to be worried about as far as these AI developments are concerned. I think we need to be careful about how it’s handled in the coming years, but I am still more hopeful than before after becoming aware of how many of the AI products are scammy marketing ploys. But there are still real developments to be noted and to be mindful of. Thanks for the comment!

[@wayneca2112]

So you are reviewing something you don't have

[@toututu2993]

Yes but Rabit R-1 is obviously a stripped down smartphone which I bet he has

[@zombos22222]

its 199,99$, it works without subscription, battery gets improved and works for fullday sometimes even 2 days for me and is the cutest ai assistant which his even animated vs this faceless copilot,chat gpt,alexa,siri cold things and free from this endless subscription payments vs 21$ chat gpt endless payment enslavery + h.u.m.a.n.e. some features are coming soon but this was clearly said and shown up in the roadmap so i dont know why people are so full of hate for this poor lil bunbun, just get stomped under his fluffy paw until muted and full of love for the cute lil bunbun.

[@Amidreamingnow]

wow, this guy really has no clue of what's goin on with AI. ignorance is a bliss sometimes , let's hope it doesn't blow on your face. that sounds angry 🤔😂😂

[@sunnohh]

Linear algebra cannot think, ai is marketing bs

[@toututu2993]

AI = Absolute Idiot. It is a secret message from greedy tech companies to their victims called customers

[@gu9838]

um. ai is not a scam. your igonarnt if you compare a single product to all of ai. i hate videos like this. oh wow its a bad product that means all ai is bad really?>

[@ambiarock590]

AI is definitely not all it's cracked up to be. One thing about it I find really scummy is how its trained using people's data probably without their consent (and no, putting a note about it on page 312 of a EULA is not consent). AI is not intelligent, it cannot think for itself thus is NOT an intelligence. Just because it acts like an intelligence and talks like an intelligence, doesn't mean it is intelligent. AI is the latest tech and marketing buzzwords just like "smart" stuff was about a decade ago

[@spencers-adventures]

Did you watch the whole video? I didn’t say that - I’m saying that there’s a lot of marketing BS encircling the whole AI conversation right now and it’s causing products like this to get a lot of money from confused, techno-optimistic consumers

[@Daveforever]

eat some meat, dude