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Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'

https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/
74•wibbily•1h ago

Comments

wibbily•1h ago
Are 404 media links still blackholed?
rvz•1h ago
Only if the articles have a pay-wall and no way to bypass it.

This article in particular doesn’t have one. So it should be fine.

bix6•1h ago
Imagine investing your hard earned money into a phone farm that spams AI content in order to manipulate people into buying shit they don’t need, while our world burns.
kurthr•47m ago
See, there's your problem, introspection.

https://youtube.com/shorts/b6Zw50f5jJk

fxtentacle•2m ago
Wow. I thought you were being snarky, but he actually says to skip all kinds of introspection, reflexion, and also therapy.
x3n0ph3n3•59m ago
Anyone working for a company like that should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
userbinator•47m ago
I'm not sure if LLMs can be ashamed of themselves.

/s

verdverm•15m ago
I wonder how many people can be ashamed of themselves these days

!/s?

blargey•53m ago
Having looked at https://doublespeed.ai/ out of morbid curiosity, I have to say a simple screenshot would have sent the message more effectively. Well, that and the tagline "a16z funded this".
n_u•48m ago
> an a16z-funded startup that uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated TikTok accounts

Isn't this a bot farm? Don't they already exist and aren't they against TikTok's terms of service? The most surprising part of this article is that a16z invested in this.

also their website is unsettling https://doublespeed.ai/

ryandrake•44m ago
> The most surprising part of this article is that a16z invested in this.

Why would this surprise you?

ra•19m ago
Surprises me to.

I thought A16Z were a top-tier VC wanting to create long-term value. I didn't see black-hat social media bot farms in their focus areas.

It might be a bit facetious, but if I had 10m invested with them I'd be asking questions about their investment thesis.

sofixa•17m ago
Yeah, we're talking a VC. And one run by and named after two guys who between them have publicly backed racism+misogyny+xenophobia+nepotism, have asked for more housing to be built while blocking housing in their own city, etc.

Them investing in a troll farm is pretty on brand.

heavyset_go•13m ago
If that surprises you, imagine the shady shit people with too much money invest in when the thought of "what if I hired some hackers" crosses their minds.
phplovesong•13m ago
Doublespeed looks like cancer. Never heard about them or "a16z" before, but looks like the pinnacle of slop
fxtentacle•1m ago
SaaS = Slop as a Service. I heard SaaS is all the rage with VC money these days.
speedping•6m ago
I can't be the only one who thought this was a phone farm based on iPhones running Apple A16Z SoC (which doesn't exist btw, it's A12Z or A16)

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