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A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

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Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

#11

Looks like this is a report on how the company just…handles its business: https://doublespeed.ai/

How does one profit from this farm of AI content on TikTok?

Advertising and shilling, just like normal influencers?

Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

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wow... honestly, reading the Twitter feed for Zuhair ("CEO" of DoubleSpeed) makes me sick. https://x.com/rareZuhair and https://www.zuhair.io/ . If you want more photos of his phone farm... it's all on his twitter page: https://x.com/rareZuhair/status/1961160231322517997 "Accelerating the dead Internet"? Why are we, as a community, encouraging the acceleration of enshitification of our common spaces? So weird to me..…

He sounds like an intelligent but misguided teenager. Maybe he's not a bad kid, and just needs better role models than the companies he mentions.

If we never do things that later make us cringe and want to correct, we're not reflective and self-critical enough.

Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

#15

Looks like this is a report on how the company just…handles its business: https://doublespeed.ai/

>"never pay a human again."

>"Take proven content and spawn variation."

It's almost refreshing how unashamed they are. I hate it, obviously, but I kind of like it better than companies that say something dressed up in marketing speak but actually mean what this site just says outright.

Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

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post #14
post #5

wow... honestly, reading the Twitter feed for Zuhair ("CEO" of DoubleSpeed) makes me sick. https://x.com/rareZuhair and https://www.zuhair.io/ . If you want more photos of his phone farm... it's all on his twitter page: https://x.com/rareZuhair/status/1961160231322517997 "Accelerating the dead Internet"? Why are we, as a community, encouraging the acceleration of enshitification of our common spaces? So weird to me..…

He sounds like an intelligent but misguided teenager. Maybe he's not a bad kid, and just needs better role models than the companies he mentions. If we never do things that later make us cringe and want to correct, we're not reflective and self-critical enough.

FWIW, I agree with you. I think that great role models are sadly in short supply these days.

Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

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post #7

My god, horrific. Does not everyone know everything online is a psyop now? I will tel you, they don't. No one studies things, no one takes the time. AI, social media, it all has to be protested, boycotted. Now it seems war is coming from the US it could not be more true that at this moment.

No, we should not stop something that is inevitable. We should work with it to find ways that it fits into a productive society, such as anonymously verifying that you are a citizen so the cost of abuse is at least a felony.

Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

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post #17
post #7

My god, horrific. Does not everyone know everything online is a psyop now? I will tel you, they don't. No one studies things, no one takes the time. AI, social media, it all has to be protested, boycotted. Now it seems war is coming from the US it could not be more true that at this moment.

No, we should not stop something that is inevitable. We should work with it to find ways that it fits into a productive society, such as anonymously verifying that you are a citizen so the cost of abuse is at least a felony.

Nothing makes this inevitable. People like you who want to do nothing about it makes it inevitable.

Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

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Looks like this is a report on how the company just…handles its business: https://doublespeed.ai/

Wow I thought this type of business was illegal or at least a very gray area conducted on the dark web but looks like the VCs at this point have no morals left. Gambling? Amazing. Spam? Take my money. Ad fraud? Yes please

Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

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Looks like this is a report on how the company just…handles its business: https://doublespeed.ai/

Wow I thought this type of business was illegal or at least a very gray area conducted on the dark web but looks like the VCs at this point have no morals left. Gambling? Amazing. Spam? Take my money. Ad fraud? Yes please

A16Z is basically funding toxic fungi growing on the face of society at this point. So much of what they do seems to be a bet that people will want to pay money to do antisocial things and avoid the consequences.
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