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.
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".
> 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.
I did some volunteer work with a non-profit conducting a survey in NYC about “food deserts”. I had to complete an hours long certification course—ethical boundaries and such—just so I can speak with people about fruits and vegetables. This audio makes it clear a16z’s rigorous approach to communication is coming from a dark and dangerous place.
This “playbook” speaks about _intentionally creating_ mental breakdown. Seems like an antichrist move to me.
Wow, this doublespeed company is abhorrent stuff. AI social media accounts masquerading as real people, coordinating to promote and distribute anything on demand.
If this is the kind of thing you can do in the open as a "reputable" company with VC investment, I can only imagine the kind of horrific industrial-scale social media spam+slop botnets for hire that exist less publicly.
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 50.3 ms ] threadIsn'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/
And still Wikipedia calls the dead internet a ‘conspiracy theory’
I'm not an expert on the antichrist, but I think they are at least better candidates than Greta Thunberg.
New Media Playbook https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/a16zs-new-media-playboo...
I still think it’s quite shocking.
I did some volunteer work with a non-profit conducting a survey in NYC about “food deserts”. I had to complete an hours long certification course—ethical boundaries and such—just so I can speak with people about fruits and vegetables. This audio makes it clear a16z’s rigorous approach to communication is coming from a dark and dangerous place.
This “playbook” speaks about _intentionally creating_ mental breakdown. Seems like an antichrist move to me.
* Y Combinator - vibe coders.
Are there any respectable VC tech companies out there in 2026?
If this is the kind of thing you can do in the open as a "reputable" company with VC investment, I can only imagine the kind of horrific industrial-scale social media spam+slop botnets for hire that exist less publicly.