Nitasha Tiku

There's environmental concerns.

And I think a lot could be addressed by putting them up there.

Yeah.

So I got this quite shocking email in my inbox that I can only assume was AI generated.

I'm assuming this AI super PAC was using AI to reach out to people because why on earth would you put a tech reporter and a tech reporter who's known specifically for reporting critically on dark money influence campaigns, you know, on this sort of outreach list.

But so, yeah, so I got this sort of vague email that was like, hey, you know, we want to

pay you thousands of dollars, there could be this potential for ongoing work to like promote AI.

And what stood out to me, because I do get sort of spam, you know, I have a big sort of YouTube channel and stuff.

So I get sometimes offers from like a cell phone case company or something.

And I usually have to decline most of these offers for conflict of interest.

But, um,

And it was kind of vague.

And it was like, you know, we want you to talk about AI in China, but it didn't really say who was sponsoring it.

So I got back and I thought, is this a big AI company?

You know, sort of who's behind this?

I replied and I was like, hey.

I'd love more information about this.

By the way, my auto signature says, you know, Taylor Lorenz, tech reporter.

And this influencer marketing company got back to me and said, you know, it's for this group, Build American AI.

But don't worry, they don't want you to mention them, tag them, or anything in the post.