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NotYourLawyer
5 months ago
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The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is p...
The scam is that the hardware is unnecessary, expensive, and strictly worse than just using your phone.
danparsonson
5 months ago
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That doesn't make it a scam though, just a waste of money. A scam would be something like, you order it and what turns up is a photo of the device with a QR code on the back linking to a download for the app.
serf
5 months ago
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the line isn't that clear cut. broken promises that create a sale could certainly be construed as 'scammy'.
danparsonson
5 months ago
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I don't know too much about this product - did they promise not to run it on Android?
bluSCALE4
5 months ago
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The scam is that it uses Playwright and no LLM actually exists.
asadm
5 months ago
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Market isn't an optimization problem. Market can decide what is necessary or isn't. I would pick this up for $200 if the models were running locally.
msephton
5 months ago
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I think we all would. But realistically no $200 device is going to run models locally.
dartos
5 months ago
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You can run models on anything if you try
NotYourLawyer
5 months ago
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They don’t though. And if they did, it would cost more than $200. Like, say, a phone.
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