{"id":6263,"date":"2025-10-27T21:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/doublespeed-ai-phone-farm\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:36:53","slug":"doublespeed-ai-phone-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/doublespeed-ai-phone-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"AI \u201cPhone Farm\u201d Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the most powerful venture capital funds in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

Introducing Doublespeed, a startup operating a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated slop on behalf of its clients. In a nutshell, phone farming<\/a> is a tactic most often used by hackers and financial criminals to use large numbers of devices to send spam texts, farm social media engagement, or generate fake reviews.<\/p>\n

On its website, the fledgling company bills itself as a \u201cbulk content creation\u201d service. Basically, it lets customers \u201corchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.\u201d It does this through \u201cinstrumented human action,\u201d a fancy phrase meaning the company\u2019s phone bots will somehow mimic \u201cnatural user interaction on physical devices to get our content to appear human to the algorithims [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n

In a post on X-formerly-Twitter<\/a>, Doublespeed co-founder Zuhair Lakhani even boasts that they used AI to write the company\u2019s code. \u201cClaude code is truly our third cofounder,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Yes, we built a phone farm (and its pretty sick).<\/p>\n

At first, it was to tackle the first evolution of ai on socials: replacing human creators with ai, mainly used for marketing.<\/p>\n

Many businesses use us for that today.<\/p>\n

But the device infra gave us ability to run every possible\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/TXgPZKWd3m<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/DYlqtXjodG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Zuhair Lakhani (@rareZuhair) October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The whole thing is backed by a $1 million cash injection<\/a> from a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz back in 2009.<\/p>\n

Doublespeed clients can expect to pay anywhere between $1,500 and $7,500 a month for access to its phone farm.<\/p>\n

As 404 Media <\/em>notes<\/a>, the service is obviously a violation of the terms of agreement for the top social media platforms. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook for example, prohibits posting, sharing, or engaging content \u201cat very high frequencies,\u201d and specifically disallows<\/a> \u201cselling, buying, or exchanging for engagement, such as likes, shares, views, follows, clicks, use of specific hashtags, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

X, LinkedIn, and Reddit have similar policies, though it\u2019s becoming increasingly unclear if any of these platforms are particularly interested in actually enforcing policies against spam bots. Users on each site have grown<\/a> more and more<\/a> frustrated<\/a> lately as AI-powered bot accounts are allowed to infest every last corner<\/a> of the internet, an issue which tech critic Cory Doctorow calls \u201cplatform decay<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, many of those platforms are also being eaten away by AI-powered content moderation<\/a> \u2014 a cost-cutting strategy which saves tech companies the hassle of outsourcing content management to sweat shop workers<\/a> in Africa.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, it may be one of the peak signs of our time: a million-dollar gamble on a for-profit company whose entire model relies on monetizing spam. Who said capitalism has to breed innovation?<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The post AI \u201cPhone Farm\u201d Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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