OM DENNE EPISODE
This week, we go down the rabbit hole of the internet's worst-kept secret: bots. Cloudflare says over half the internet traffic out there isn't human anymore, and after this episode you'll believe it. We dig into Double Speed, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company whose CEO openly admits, on camera, that he runs a legal bot farm, charging roughly $150 a bot for rented phone numbers, custom personas, and LLM-powered comments designed to slip past detection. And it doesn't stop at fake accounts: bot farms are now hiring real human actors to read AI-generated scripts, which sends Sophie down memory lane to a rock-bottom Hollywood audition she never should have said yes to (or in this case, never showed up to).
Also this episode: our reactions to the trailer for the upcoming Elon Musk documentary, a very unscientific theory about bot activity in the LA mayoral race, and a reminder that "do your own research" gets a lot harder when you can't tell who's actually talking.
If you haven't already, check out our bonus deep-dive on Jacob Coxson's viral AI doom tweet. It's a wild one.
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