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  • 👨‍💻 Hacker exposes a startup running huge web of AI-generated “influencers” on instagram

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Back in October, word started making the rounds of an AI startup called Doublespeed. Backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Doublespeed offers customers a unique service: access to a massive phone farm that could be used to operate hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts.

Now, 404 Media reports in an explosive scoop that Doublespeed has been hacked. This wasn’t just one account associated with the startup, but the entire backend used to manage its phone farm — so it provides an extraordinary glimpse at how the service is actually being used to manipulate social media at scale.

The hacker also shared a list of over 400 TikTok accounts operated by Doublespeed’s phone farm, about half of which were actively promoting products. Most of them, the publication reports, did so without disclosing that the posts were ads — a direct violation of TikTok’s terms of use, not to mention the Federal Trade Commission’s digital advertising regulations. Read more

AI News

  • 🎒 OpenAI outlines how it wants ChatGPT to talk to teens (link)

  • 🇬🇧 Why British politicians are flocking to American tech giants (link)

  • 🎬 YouTube shut down two AI slop channels that pumped out fake movie trailers (link)

  • 🏈 Peripheral Labs taps into self-driving car sensors to bring sports fans right into the game (link)

  • 👨‍🌾 Millions of private ChatGPT conversations are being harvested and sold for profit (link)

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AI Tools

  • 🪙 Sup AI: AI that gives you answers you can trust, research-grade accuracy, or zero tolerance for hallucinations (link)

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