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

wibbily 100 points 27 comments April 14, 2026
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wibbily

Are 404 media links still blackholed?

bix6

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.

x3n0ph3n3

Anyone working for a company like that should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

blargey

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

> 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/

phplovesong

Doublespeed looks like cancer. Never heard about them or "a16z" before, but looks like the pinnacle of slop

speedping

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)

balls187

Help me understand. Is this just AI replacing influencers?

sph

How can I contribute to such endeavours? And still Wikipedia calls the dead internet a ‘conspiracy theory’

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