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A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251218015621/https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 4 months ago

Hacker should make the phones explode or something. Trash startup funded by trash.

[–] who@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

I feel this is a stupid abbreviation that needlessly obscures the subject from readers, in favor of corporation-indulgent branding.

404 Media, please do better.

[–] Aatube@thriv.social 5 points 4 months ago

how does it service the corporation? everyone that knows about the company should know about this abbreviation

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Are AI influencers any worse than any other influencers? Slop follows slop.