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by PodgieTar 741 days ago
I mean, it is a bit of a scam though right? I can pay for an NFT, 'own' the NFT, and still have been scammed.

In the case of this device, it told users it has functionality that, plainly, it does not have. It marketed itself based on these features. That is a scam.

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they said they have a large action model, but allegedly they just have playwright scripts that break as rideshare apps update

they said they are faster than chatgpt, but allegedly they are a chatgpt wrapper

They say it's going to be free forever with no subscription, but they have to pay for chatgpt API calls. Even if you forgive them for overhyping their chatgpt wrapper, they're still a ponzi scheme.
I still think of NFTs like the art market. If you bought the thing and you are happy with just owning what you got then there isn't a problem.

On the other hand if you bought with the expectation to sell in the future for a profit, you are trading on the perceived value. Scams rely on making you believe that the future accepted value will be much higher than what it will actually be.

That would be analogous to creating the expectation of absent functionality in the Rabbit.

In both cases the fraud is not in the item being sold but in the misrepresentations about it.

I think why this matters is because these days it feels like everything is misrepresented. I can buy a graphics card and be happy with its performance even though it is almost guaranteed to be well below the manufacturers promised level.

What is the returns policy for the Rabbit? Can people get a refund if they don't like it?