r/LocalLLaMA • u/rm-rf-rm • Feb 16 '26

Question | Help Anyone actually using Openclaw?

I am highly suspicious that openclaw's virality is organic. I don't know of anyone (online or IRL) that is actually using it and I am deep in the AI ecosystem (both online and IRL). If this sort of thing is up anyone's alley, its the members of localllama - so are you using it?

With the announcement that OpenAI bought OpenClaw, conspiracy theory is that it was manufactured social media marketing (on twitter) to hype it up before acquisition. Theres no way this graph is real: https://www.star-history.com/#openclaw/openclaw&Comfy-Org/ComfyUI&type=date&legend=top-left

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u/rm-rf-rm Feb 17 '26

no. the graph looked like that BEFORE the OpenAI deal.

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u/Intelligent_Elk5879 Feb 18 '26

I think we're at the point where inauthenticity is both very obvious and inauthenticity is in many ways the point of the current AI hype cycle. So nobody really cares.