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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

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Post by aunty_helen »

jfindper wrote: post #15
tolerance wrote: post #4

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.

Controversy is currency. Businesses literally try to track and optimise virality these days as part of their marketing.

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

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Post by Hizonner »

Noaidi wrote: 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.

How about a few prison terms for conspiracy to defraud? And not for small fry like the "CEO" of this company either. Why not, say, 10 years for Marc Andreesen, personally? And, no, no "disrupting" it with serve-your-time-as-a-service, either.

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

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Post by ajross »

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Seems like the Butlerian Jihad is arriving ahead of schedule, and the real horrors demanding the uprising aren't oppression and violence, but viral marketing and sockpuppetry.

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

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Post by mlsu »

neilv wrote: post #14
ipython wrote: 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.

He just got a $1 mil series A. Better role models? He is a role model, at least in the society we've decided to build.

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

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Post by neuroelectron »

bpt3 wrote: post #24

WTF happened to a16z? They used to be at the pinnacle of the VC sector, and now they seem to actively seek out the most toxic portcos possible.

Once you have infinite money, you tend to want infinite power next

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

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Post by fuzzfactor »

exasperaited wrote: post #20
coffeebeqn wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Some people are naturally talented financially, and can make as much money as they like without doing anything to anyone else's disadvantage.

And then there's everyone else.

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

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Post by nickthegreek »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #10
tolerance wrote: post #4

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?

Immorally.

Probably moves like affiliate/referral linking, client paid campaigns, cpa lead generating arbitrate at scale, product seeding.

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

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Post by qingcharles »

Hizonner wrote: post #22
Noaidi wrote: 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.

How about a few prison terms for conspiracy to defraud? And not for small fry like the "CEO" of this company either. Why not, say, 10 years for Marc Andreesen, personally? And, no, no "disrupting" it with serve-your-time-as-a-service, either.

I hate that Marc Andreesen' arc went from Mosaic to supervillain.

It's easier to count billionaires who aren't supervillains.

p.s. this is not a great photo of Marc on his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marc_Andreessen-9_(croppe...

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

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Post by thephyber »

ipython wrote: 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..…

The risky thing about creating this tool is that someone will inevitably use it against the creator, the employees, and the investors.
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