OpenClaw: a suspicious popularity?

A recent thread on Reddit, in the LocalLLaMA community, raises doubts about the real adoption of OpenClaw, a technology recently acquired by OpenAI. The user who started the discussion expresses skepticism about the organic nature of OpenClaw's virality, stating that they don't know anyone, either online or in person, who is actually using it, despite their deep immersion in the artificial intelligence ecosystem.

The discussion focuses on the hypothesis that OpenClaw's popularity was artificially inflated through a social media marketing campaign, particularly on Twitter, to increase its value before the acquisition by OpenAI. A graph showing exponential growth is questioned, suggesting that it may not reflect reality.

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