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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 YetAnotherNick »

jfindper wrote: post #51
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's a calculated marketing, not them being honest.

> No, it's a calculated marketing, not them being honest. It's obviously marketing. But their marketing strategy appears to be being unashamed about ripping off content and creating bot farms. What are you suggesting they are lying about? They're actually doing it for the good of the world and just pretending they're a bot farm for hire?

I don't think they actually believe that "never pay a human again" works as they raised money to pay humans.

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

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Post by dang »

yodon wrote: post #65

Streisand effect? A mod changed the title to something other than the originally submitted original article title, to protect a major VC. Not cool.

I haven't looked at the article but its title is pretty baity and that's probably why we changed it, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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

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Post by jfindper »

edm0nd wrote: post #79
shagmin wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Original title was better in multiple ways. Mods did a disservice here.

wait is there more than one mod on HN? I for some reason have always thought it was just that @dang guy as the only one. Is he just the top mod and there are others underneath him?

tomhow is the other one, and evidently the one who changed the title. apparently for "clickbait" and "length".

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dang wrote: post #82
yodon wrote: post #65

Streisand effect? A mod changed the title to something other than the originally submitted original article title, to protect a major VC. Not cool.

I haven't looked at the article but its title is pretty baity and that's probably why we changed it, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

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

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Post by Multicomp »

kps wrote: post #62
queuebert wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's be honest. It's been mostly downhill since AOL.

Today is Wednesday the 11796th of September 1993.

Eternal September came up in conversation today about how users don't do effort posts any longer, they just want to leave funny comments below reaction videos and then swipe to the next one.

Anyone got any good effort post oases I can lurk and help out in?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

jpalawaga wrote: post #69
tomhow wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Post by jfindper »

tomhow wrote: post #58
nickphx wrote: post #46

why 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…

>Both for length reasons

The original title is 75 characters. Your title is 74 characters. If it was edited for length reasons, I'm not sure saving 1 character is worth it.

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

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Post by danudey »

dang wrote: post #82
yodon wrote: post #65

Streisand effect? A mod changed the title to something other than the originally submitted original article title, to protect a major VC. Not cool.

I haven't looked at the article but its title is pretty baity and that's probably why we changed it, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

The baity-feeling title is actually pretty spot-on, honestly.
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