a16z-Backed 'AI Influencer' Phone Farm Doublespeed Gets Hacked, Exposing 1,000+ Fake Accounts

A hack of Doublespeed reveals the inner workings of a startup running over a thousand phones to power AI-generated social media influencers — and which products they were being paid to promote.

An AI startup called Doublespeed, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has been hacked, according to @rherardi. The breach exposed the company's operation: a phone farm running over 1,000 devices, each managing AI-generated social media accounts designed to function as influencers. The leaked data reportedly reveals which products and brands these synthetic accounts were being paid to promote.

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