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Only one side can afford astroturfers and has a large contingent of employees on HN.

That’s not true. The AI side can afford more surely, but that doesn’t mean the anti-AI side is broke. Lawmakers are being lobbied, YouTubers are already being paid to make vids, seems unlikely it would stop there.

What makes you so confident? Do you have any proof of this? If so I would love to see it because it would explain some stuff I've come across, but could not place.

YouTuber saying she was offered money https://youtu.be/lPdmYMHrWKg?is=JY229A1XgOBi-pdV

Creator outreach guy at ControlAI talking about the same type of thing https://lnkd.in/p/ehkuYFkw

Future of life has a program for digital media outreach https://futureoflife.org/project/digital-media-accelerator/

The PACs are well reported on

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/30/ai-safeguards-public-first-...

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/17/ai-safeguards-millions-repu...

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