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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/
96•wibbily•2h ago

Comments

wibbily•2h 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•1h ago
See, there's your problem, introspection.

https://youtube.com/shorts/b6Zw50f5jJk

fxtentacle•31m ago
Wow. I thought you were being snarky, but he actually says to skip all kinds of introspection, reflexion, and also therapy.
rexpop•19m ago
What is wrong with his upper respiratory system?
x3n0ph3n3•1h ago
Anyone working for a company like that should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
userbinator•1h ago
I'm not sure if LLMs can be ashamed of themselves.

/s

verdverm•44m ago
I wonder how many people can be ashamed of themselves these days

!/s?

liquidise•28m ago
I have an opposite reaction for what I assume are reasons we agree on.

Social media has been a transparent race to the bottom for many years. The sooner it is shittified beyond repair the better. AI flooding content to them should help speedrun its descent, or maybe I’ve giving the average user (above child age) too much credit.

jim33442•17m ago
I think so. These sites can be hardened by relying on people following who they know, but the slop ruins discoverability. That's also partially the reason people moved to TikTok from older, more dumped-on platforms.
blargey•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago
> The most surprising part of this article is that a16z invested in this.

Why would this surprise you?

ra•48m 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.

Zanfa•21m ago
> I thought A16Z were a top-tier VC wanting to create long-term value.

That hasn’t been the case since they publicly went all-in into crypto scams.

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

Their fund sizes have skyrocketed since.

mayneack•19m ago
A16Z was (is?) up to their eyeballs in crypto as well.
sofixa•46m 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•42m 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.
OtherShrezzing•22m ago
A16z’s owners have been fairly open about their societally unpalatable attitudes of late. Maybe they were always like that, just a bit more private about it in the past.

In any case, their investment into this company just fits onto a trendline of high-capital antisocial behaviour.

phplovesong•43m ago
Doublespeed looks like cancer. Never heard about them or "a16z" before, but looks like the pinnacle of slop
fxtentacle•31m ago
SaaS = Slop as a Service. I heard SaaS is all the rage with VC money these days.
speedping•35m 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)
jim33442•27m ago
There are at least two of us
balls187•26m ago
Help me understand. Is this just AI replacing influencers?
Legend2440•16m ago
More like a tiktok spam botnet for hire.

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