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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 qingcharles »

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's doing it for the ragebait, but the sad thing is the product is totally real. Cory was right from the start.

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

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Post by jbm »

SilverElfin wrote: post #9

This feels not very different from the recent report revealing how Nick Fuentes has a lot of artificial likes and comments on videos that push his content, due to a large following that responds to commands delivered via Telegram etc. A VC backed corporation using a large phone farm to manipulate the public is no better than Nick Fuentes.

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

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Post by moomoo11 »

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.

A lot of people are against the current social media tech it seems. I wouldn't be surprised if they're funding the acceleration of its collapse to see what can come next.

New generation is less social, more sober, less motivated, more doomer.

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

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Post by thephyber »

ipython wrote: post #16
neilv wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don’t think they are in short supply, but the vast majority of them aren’t the super-successful so we don’t see their names often.

They are the teachers, coaches, and engineers. The problem is the anti- role models are the ones who get all of the media:

Andrew Tate (mysogenistic pyramid schemer and pimp / sex trafficker of high school girls),

Joe Rogan (his mind is so open that his brains fell out),

Jordan B Peterson (charlatan who dresses up banal self-help advice with pseudo-intellectual jargon to seem profound, drug addict who is still taking very big risks with his health, frequently argues strawmans by misrepresenting postmodernism, Marxism, atheism, etc).

Our heuristics of who we should look up to are skewed because too many young people revere wrath and fame over ethics, morals, and values which may hold us back from success.

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

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Post by bpt3 »

neuroelectron wrote: post #26
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

I don't disagree, but lighting money on fire hyping NFTs and whatever other random fad strikes them as interesting doesn't seem to be the way to accomplish that.

My actual guess is that they got way too big, both in terms of headcount and fund size, to limit their investments to what is expected to be the best of the best in terms of financial return and societal impact.

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

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Post by gruez »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #32

Why isn't this company sued for computer fraud and abuse?

Because using the CFAA as a cudgel against things you don't like, whether it's journalists exposing insecure government systems, or companies engaging in deceptive marketing practices is a bad idea? For the latter, there's already laws against it that doesn't involve CFAA, eg. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B...

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

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Post by bflesch »

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.

If you read "Careless People" you'll notice that Andreesseen was prioritizing cash over morals for a long time, and his Facebook investment/involvement was also producing highly unethical things
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