An a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service

• A new startup backed by one of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is building a service that allows clients to “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” Essentially, the startup, called Doublespeed, is pitching an astroturfing AI-powered bot service, which is in clear violation of policies for all major social media platforms. 

Tasks

• Ping Nellie
• Water plants – done
• Fix fixee flat
• Email Michael after tweaking the first refusal response – done
• Ping Nathan and/or Edwins – done

SBIRs

• Keep on working with the story prompting. I think I need to graduate the story objects to their own file as they are getting to be good sized.
  • Add binary saving and loading
  • Finish a full story
  • See if I can tweak the model to do less reasoning for these tests
  • Start playing around with getting embeddings and clustering. The goal will be to some good ratio of number of clusters to cluster size. Somehow, I think this is related to the value of the skip-gram acting as an attractor/repulsor. There is probably some kind of magic ratio that I can look for