Actual title: "Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers"
Yes.. it was updated to this by mods
A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote
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#62Re: A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote
#63How long until the company gets sued by X/Meta/Tik Tok?
Bot activity could push up engagement metrics on these platforms, so (in some sense) those companies aren't necessarily incentivized to stop this.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "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.
No, it's a calculated marketing, not them being honest.
All marketing is calculated, some just turns out to be more effective
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#65Streisand effect?
A mod changed the title to something other than the originally submitted original article title, to protect a major VC.
Not cool.
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#66My 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.
> He posted on HN.
The call is coming from inside the house.
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#67AI is pretty much killing social media in the long term. Even pre-AI, a good chunk of posts/comment sections on sites were bots/paid. Reddit is becoming less believable than ChatGPT. I guess there's still the Onion-verse.
Reddit died to me when they allowed private profiles this summer.
Interestingly, you can still use `author:username` to search for posts. For my part, if something seems suspicious and the profile is private then I assume it's a bot.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not convinced you can have an impromptu global conversation to any positive end. Humans are not well suited to this task and an unsupervised mostly anonymous forum plays to those weaknesses and provides no support to generate positive outcomes. It was never a particularly good idea at the scale it's currently deployed at.
BBSes and forums have existed for literally longer than the internet
Were they global or local? I made that distinction intentionally.
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#69why was the original title edited to remove the reference to a16z? why hide investment into socially unacceptable product? if you are going to be a scumbag weasel, own it.
Edit: Fine! I found a way to get a16z in there and keep it to 80 chars. Both for length reasons and because it was clickbait. The original title doesn’t even have the actual company’s name in it, only the name of the investor, which is intended to elicit just the kind of ragey reaction you’re exhibiting in this comment. On HN, titles need to be more neutral and factual (I.e., include the name of the company the artic…
Nobody knows what Doublespeed is, everyone knows what a16z is. Doesn't putting the part that's pertinent to people in the headline oblige readers-to-be?
I'd say that the change is editorializing more than the original was "linkbait".
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#70This 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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Reddit wasn't explicitly pushing white nationalism.
Furthermore: reddit is a platform; Fuentes is content. That's a meaningful difference.