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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service (404media.co)

“Our system analyzes what works to make the content smarter over time. The best performing content becomes the training data for what comes next,” Doublespeed’s site says. Doublespeed also says its service can create slightly different variations of the same video, saying “1 video, 100 ways.”

Absolutely ridiculous. Also reminds me of Google testing 60 some shades of blue.

Such a waste. A propaganda machine on steroids. Just. Geez.