[HN Gopher] We created a fake delivery company to get a job
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We created a fake delivery company to get a job
Author : 1ikigai
Score : 60 points
Date : 2024-07-16 16:21 UTC (3 days ago)
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| gred wrote:
| Very interesting, very impressive, and a little concerning that
| this is what it takes to get noticed! I actually went in
| expecting something along the lines of "I started a profitable
| company in order to pad my resume and get some interviews; it
| worked, so now I can shut the company down."
| brianbreslin wrote:
| loved this story, wickedly creative. This type of creativity
| should be encouraged.
| philipwhiuk wrote:
| Delivering unsolicited packages to company mailrooms?
| CamelCaseName wrote:
| What an awesome story. The amount of effort put in is nuts!
|
| Also, LOL at Conde Nast. How on brand of them to C&D you!
| 1ikigai wrote:
| haha, thank you! C&D included wording ''we appreciate
| creativity''.
|
| But I hold no grudge. I don't know what was going on in the
| life of that person, maybe they had some creepy stalkers in the
| past who really caused them problems or maybe it even didn't
| get to them and this is just a standard procedure of their
| security team.
| itronitron wrote:
| creepy, reminds me of the webpage someone made years ago that
| shows a stalker looking through all the personal information and
| friend lists of the user visiting the page
| vineyardmike wrote:
| This is really cool, but the narrative also has a few strong
| "Wait this is creepy" moments... There is a lot of creating
| problem solving and some awesome creations sprinkled in. But damn
| would I both love and hate to get one of those deliveries.
|
| They cloned people with AI tools and created a bunch of deep-
| fakes which they then delivered to that person.
|
| They used a (self made) list of dead people to improve targeted
| ads so they could cohort-advertise to a small list of people.
|
| They created fake uniforms to deliver packages to offices, and
| seemed pretty successful.
|
| I feel like this would make a great case study on targeted
| phishing and social-engineering.
| elephant81 wrote:
| What are they actually selling? Their website,
| https://www.outstandly.com/, is a single landing page with
| "Creative solutions for boring problems."
|
| Here is a boring problem, creatively show me your work.
| AIorNot wrote:
| Sounds like they are in creative/digital marketing space so
| this makes sense from that perspective- ie not the right tactic
| for a Java outsourcing company..
| 1ikigai wrote:
| Would the case you just read count?
| BadHumans wrote:
| This is everything I hate about the internet in one story. Using
| ads to target people, using AI to clone someones' voice and
| identity, dogs. The person who said they were excited, confused,
| scared but curious sums up how I feel about this although I'm not
| curious because I know where it leads.
| nasdaq-txn wrote:
| I agree. It's an invasion of privacy dressed up as a cute
| story.
| rootsudo wrote:
| Exactly. All because they want a "job." which just rewards this
| sort of behavior.
| BadHumans wrote:
| They need a job because they are fleeing a war they didn't
| ask for and are trying to get back on their feet. I don't
| blame them for doing it. I just don't like it.
| thih9 wrote:
| To be fair, they acknowledge they are being creepy and that not
| all reactions were positive.
|
| Also, of all the shady hustling that I've seen, targeting high
| level employees with a creative-and-privacy-invading pitch
| seems the least problematic.
| mcculley wrote:
| I think we can all agree about the evil of the adtech
| ecosystem. But what do you have against dogs?
| CastIrony wrote:
| I went on AliExpress to look up how much robot dogs cost, and
| after filtering out the ones that are obviously plastic toys, the
| ones that look like the photos they posted were thousands of
| dollars.
|
| Seems like a weird priority for a project like this.
| 1ikigai wrote:
| Yeah, it was definitely a silly, not economically viable leap
| of faith move. We enjoyed all of it.
| popcalc wrote:
| Tax write-off.
| ipjrms wrote:
| Disturbing. Real sociopath energy. They'll probably be
| millionaires in no time, honestly.
| curtisblaine wrote:
| This site breaks Brave on Android. The page becomee slow, goes to
| "Oh Snap" in seconds and finally Brave gets terminated.
| 1ikigai wrote:
| Sorry about this! It's a simple Ghost blog, but the post has
| lots of video and photo, that must be clogging the resources
| probably :(
| ada1981 wrote:
| I'd love to have these guys on a creative team.
| lifestyleguru wrote:
| Many of us found themselves trying their luck in London. They
| don't seem to financially need it, looking at the expenses.
| peter_d_sherman wrote:
| Random idea based on article:
|
| I'd love to see a future Sci-fi TV episode where a character gets
| not one, but multiple such "from the future gift boxes with video
| messages from a future self" -- but from _multiple future selves_
| , that is, _multiple future parallel universe versions_ of the
| character!
|
| In other words, "here is a set of potential future you's -- along
| with the instructions to activate them -- important upcoming life
| decisions to make or not to make, depending on the desired
| outcome..."
|
| And what would make it really interesting (as the plot
| unfolds!)... is that all of these apparently disparate sets of
| decisions -- are actually intertwined, entangled, and potentially
| mutually contradictory (i.e., choosing one set unchooses all of
| the others!)
|
| Now, for extra points, for the future SF writer or writers
| working on this -- make it so that the main character, after
| discovering the "either-or" mutual exclusion principle inherent
| in these choices -- tries to somehow cheat fate and destiny by
| attempting to somehow obtain ALL of them at the same time!
|
| Will the character be successful in his quest against the
| apparent exclusivity of fate?
|
| Or will he somehow manage to attain all of these future
| possibilities, all at the same time?
|
| Well, that's the episode plot for this future TV Sci-Fi episode
| and/or movie (should it ever be written!)
|
| Anyway, interesting article!
| 1ikigai wrote:
| I LOVE THIS CONCEPT SO MUCH
| euvin wrote:
| >It hit me. What if we use the ''custom audiences'' thingy, but
| just populate it with 299 deceased people and 1 person whom we
| really need to show this ad to?
|
| What a sentence. And what an article, too: using the deceased as
| a marketing ploy, sending cryptic emails, AI + voice
| impersonation. I'm surprised they only got one cease and desist
| letter at the end. I wonder if this is the endgame of social
| mobility as more and more humans become replaced through
| automation: a competition for the attention of those at the top.
| picklebarrel wrote:
| This is awesome, I love it.
| rcbdev wrote:
| Most people from Western Europe couldn't afford to just go to
| London like that and waste time and money in this way. I am much
| more curious about the state of these people's company's
| financials than anything else.
|
| Also, elaborately targeting specific people like that and
| presenting them with the fact that you can fake their voice on
| top of any kind of outrages statements while you know exactly
| where they work and how to get there sets a hellish precedent and
| I'd even consider it a veiled attempt at a threat.
|
| It is not what I'd consider culturally appropriate behavior in
| the UK, business-wise. I'd try to adapt, if at all possible, to
| the new environment you've found yourselves in unwillingly.
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