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Taylor Lorenz Says She Is Again Being Offered a Lot of Money to Promote Anti AI Content

I’m once again being offered a lot of money to promote anti-AI content

Screenshot of a message to Taylor pitching a paid #HellWithAI collab, with the sender name blacked out, citing her Billionaires Are Funding Anti AI Content video.Campaign graphic for #HellWithAI saying greedy billionaires and AI companies are killing humanity, with a claim that AI killed 500,000 or more jobs.Campaign cards telling people not to use AI products, to refuse AI customer support, to never pay for AI tools, and not to watch AI generated content.Campaign text titled Here is What Will Work, Guaranteed, urging people to cut off users and payments as the oxygen of AI companies.

Context

Why it matters

Paid campaigns against AI, if real, show a growing influence market around AI fear and politics.

Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) is a technology journalist and creator. Her post shares screenshots of an outreach pitch for a paid #HellWithAI campaign. The claims in that pitch are from the sender, not from Lorenz as fact.

Deep dive

Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) posted on Nov 4 that she is once again being offered a lot of money to promote anti AI content.

She attached screenshots of a message pitching a paid collab for an anti AI campaign called #HellWithAI. The pitch says the tech threatens humanity and the environment and creates a stock market bubble, cites her video Billionaires Are Funding Anti AI Content, and asks her to join. Other images show campaign creatives claiming AI killed 500,000 or more jobs and listing actions such as refusing AI products, AI customer support, paid AI tools and AI generated media.

Lorenz is reporting that she received the offer. She does not say she accepted it, and the job loss and extinction claims in the pitch are unverified campaign copy.

The post matters as a culture signal: money is flowing not only into AI marketing but into anti AI marketing as the politics of AI heat up after the midterms.

The post passed about 500,000 views.

What to expect next

Watch whether other creators report similar paid anti AI pitches, and whether #HellWithAI or related campaigns gain real reach. Platforms may label paid political AI content. AI companies' own trust and safety and policy teams will track the messaging. Lorenz or others may follow up if they take or reject the offer. Newsrooms may also dig into who funds #HellWithAI style campaigns and how much creators are being paid.