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[–] [email protected] 243 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Both Rabbit R1 users should be concerned.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 months ago (3 children)

these keys allow anyone to [...] brick all r1s

the rabbit team is aware of this leaking of api keys and have chosen to ignore it.

Assuming that's true, then just bricking them all sounds like it might even be the ethically correct move.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

It will be hard to tell. What's the difference between a bricked r1 and a non bricked r1? Answer: not much at all.

[–] brotkel 30 points 6 months ago

It’s like the ending of Silicon Valley. Maybe they’re trying to shit their pants so badly that nobody will ever try to make another device like this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

I don't know if it is worth the effort to brick 3 devices out in the wild.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago

I'm shocked. Shocked I say!

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago

the most interesting key is for elevenlabs, which gives full privileges. this allows us to:

(...) delete voices (and crash the rabbitOS backend, thus rendering all r1 devices useless)

we have internal confirmation that the rabbit team is aware of this leaking of api keys and have chosen to ignore it. the api keys continue to be valid as of writing.

So there is a chance?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago

aint that shit a scam?

bu they still harvest the data?

So is this now 2x scam?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

we have internal confirmation that the rabbit team is aware of this leaking of api keys and have chosen to ignore it.

Lmao, I guess nobody's surprised. A scam is a scam.

we will not be publishing any more details out of respect for the users

Kind of lame, I was hoping they'd brick every r1 device just out of spite. Let it be a cautionary tale for whoever was dumb enough to buy one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If they literally only have a handful of users, so probably don't see a need to do anything about it 🤣

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Some context on what the fuck is rabbit and r1 would have been helpful.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Since no one is explaining and I have only ever heard of Rabbit on Lemmy (again with no context, probably a US thing), here is a Kagi quick answer:

what is rabbit and r1?

Based on the available information, the Rabbit R1 is a new AI-powered device developed by a tech startup called Rabbit Inc. and designed by Teenage Engineering. The key details about the Rabbit R1 are:

  • It is a standalone handheld gadget about half the size of an iPhone, with a 2.88-inch touchscreen and a rotating camera for taking photos and videos. 【1】【2】
  • The Rabbit R1 is powered by an AI assistant and is intended to help users interact with various apps and services on their smartphone, essentially acting as a remote control. 【3】【4】
  • It connects to the internet via 4G LTE and Wi-Fi, allowing it to provide real-time information and assistance. 【5】
  • The Rabbit R1 currently supports integration with apps like Uber, Spotify, Midjourney, and DoorDash, allowing users to control these services through the device. 【6】
  • Reviews of the Rabbit R1 have been mixed, with some criticizing its unreliable performance, inaccurate answers, and short battery life. 【7】【2】

In summary, the Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered handheld device that aims to provide a more convenient way for users to interact with various apps and services on their smartphones. However, it seems the device still has some issues that need to be addressed.

  1. The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you
  2. Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget - The Verge
  3. What are the main functions of the Rabbit R1? Its everyday use?
  4. What exactly is the Rabbit R1 AI device that confused many people?
  5. Rabbit R1 hands-on review: Something is iffy about this | Mashable
  6. Rabbit R1 Explained: What This Tiny AI Gadget Actually Does - CNET
  7. Rabbit R1 review: Avoid this AI gadget - Tom's Guide
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

what the fuck is rabbit and r

It's basically just a scam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Hahaha, that's a pretty wild read.

The fucking Gamaverse,

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Search engines haven’t gotten that bad, have they?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

That could be hundred of kilobytes of data!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Typical security negligence of startups.

Your data is essentially never secure if it's sitting with a startup. It's an atrocious world for security out there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Calling this a startup is being excessively generous. Startups are meant to eventually be viable.

This is a scam. The product just feeds your queries into ChatGPT and spits out the response. The backend tech they've described flat out does not exist. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Was it ever truly alive

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

That didn't take long.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why the fuck are they using a cloud tts on an Android device??? Can't they use on device tts?? Seems extremely stupid for no reason

  1. It's expensive. They are paying a fee to the third party tts provider each single time someone needs a response. They boast "no subscriptions" - that means those fees are paid only by new customer purchases. Ponzi 2.0

  2. It's fucking expensive. Elevenlabs tts voices costs thousands of dollars per month plus $0.18 per 1000 characters. Ask the history of a monument and the verbose result that the LLM regurgitated costs them $0.15. Are they banking on the fact that most customers would just shelf the device after a day?

  3. It's slower. Each time the device needs to reply, it needs to stream an audio file instead of a few bytes of compressed text

  4. For the more realistic voices it's only cheaper in the short term. I get it - they don't like the robotic free voices and licensing a good closed source one costs money. But then you don't need to pay the "cloud" forever. Did they plan to shut down shortly after the launch? Where the money for running each user in a VM is coming out? (I saw from a YouTube video that it looked like they were using a browser automation tool in a VM)

At this point since everything is run on the cloud (=somebody else's computer) this could not only be a smartphone app, but a smartwatch app.

I wonder if they will just fold and do a rug pull now blaming the hackers or fix the problem.

Fixing the problem seems difficult for them - need to fully rewrite the app and having everything proxied through their authenticated server, increasing their expenses (and a rushed fix isn't secure/tested). But their money comes only from new investors and new customers, and at this point I doubt that they can sell more units or scam more investors.

[–] pipe01 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow so edgy, they don't use uppercase letters

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

See, it must have made their passwords easier to guess…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Where do I download these?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lots of tech people who don't know or care about the r1 device are going to get a jumpscare from this post 😁

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yup, had to read it twice! Just about had a heart attack

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why?

Edit: nvm saw someone say it's also the name of a messenger.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

RabbitMQ is used internally by a lot of applications and is often referred to colloquially as just “Rabbit”.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Rabbit? Like… the personal massager?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Using Android as a base was honestly the most reasonable thing they did. No reason to reinvent the wheel. What they made with it is admittedly really shit, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh for sure, an Android OS base is fine, but it just reinforces the fact that the actual device is manufactured shovelware E-waste that could have just been an expensive app, as the hardware itself doesn't do anything special...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't even say that. Even if they had a truly unique LLM that ran partially locally with a custom co-processor, Android might still have been a good choice. It's just hard to beat an open source base that's already compatible with most mobile hardware, and relatively easy to find Devs for.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

No please don't confuse these. One is a technological marvel that changed the world for the better and the other is just an orange box that doesn't do anything at all except maybe steal your personal data.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Still think those people should have gotten a playdate instead, it's more fun and certainly not less useful (which is, not at all).

(When I first heard about the r1 I immediately thought it was weird how the 2 devices looked alike, I've since learned they shared the same designers).

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