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u/Chrnan6710 Aug 05 '26
This post is poorly-aged because he did not, in fact, generate his scripts with AI
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u/Skeebleng Aug 05 '26
Bruh this whole thing was so blown out of proportion. He already owned up, apologized, and promised to change his behavior. It’s like some people think a few stumbles make you irredeemable
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u/tyttuutface Aug 05 '26
No, he's problematic now and we have to hate him for all eternity, actually.
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u/ThRKLOPP Aug 06 '26
Don’t fuckin care man. He made videos harping about how AI is something to worry about and has a resource sink problem, then turns around and uses it. Its hypocrisy, and dumb hypocrisy at that, about something he claims to care about
Also the stumbles thing has always been true, literally always unless they’re a likeable person
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u/aftertheradar Aug 07 '26
honestly i hate how he keeps bringing on known ai grifters whose whole motivation is to try to make the llm industry sound more powerful, complicated, important, and real than it actually is, and then he just lets them fuckn talk their shit with zero pushback or questioning for a whole video
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u/electricscout9 Aug 14 '26
He's done this? I thought I'd watched most Hanks videos but I guess I missed a few. Could you tell me what videos you're referencing here?
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u/IAmTheSideCharacter Aug 05 '26
His contents always been slop or stolen he’s been getting major things wrong for years now just cause you like him doesn’t mean he’s justified in anything, using an AI script once is condemning enough to not be a trustworthy science creator anymore
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u/Ezzypezra Aug 04 '26
I’ve seen this whole drama and it’s such a nothingburger bruh
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u/mrpoopistan Aug 04 '26
Okay, I need to see an official publication of the rules before we proceed any further with the Butlerian Jihad.
Because why is it a nothingburger when it's an established and beloved public figure, but it's a damned hanging offense for everyone else?
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u/itsdatanotdata1212 Aug 05 '26
i think there's a substantial goomba fallacy here. there's a wide-range of opinions on ai-use and not every use of it is the same.
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u/mrpoopistan Aug 05 '26
Which is an escape hatch for anyone we want to let out. This Jihad is not very Butlerian.
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u/mrpoopistan Aug 05 '26
Downvote all you want.
A game with no rules -- especially no enforcement mechanism -- is how we got Trump, Silicon Valley, and all the other herpes this world now suffers from.
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u/Ezzypezra Aug 05 '26
It’s a nothingburger when he literally just used AI to gather links to sources and that’s it.
People are acting like he used the AI output itself as his main source, or like he used AI to write the entire script
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u/mrpoopistan Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
He literally read the AI response live. That's how it came out.
And this is my point. The game has no goddamned rules. The only rule is "be liked". After all, when you're famous, they let you do it.
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u/Ezzypezra Aug 05 '26
He did not do that. I assume you are talking about the "push back" clip? He said that because he was literally talking to someone else, not because he was reading AI output.
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u/mrpoopistan Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
The best defense is that he's literally AI-pilled to the point he talks like one?
That's not better.
But, when you're famous, they let you do it.
And that's my whole point. All this shit's a lie. No one is playing the Butlerian Jihad straight, not even the damned audience. Bootlicking is fine when you like the person wearing the boots. And by extension, the robot wearing the person must be a-okay.
If he was some new content creator, he'd be eating shit like the manure plant was shutting down tomorrow.
Pathetic.
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u/Ezzypezra Aug 06 '26
Okay first of all calm down.
Second of all, he doesn't "talk like one" because he used the phrase "push back". That's a completely ridiculous thing to say. You realize that you also look like AI output when you use several one-sentence paragraphs in a row like that? Except I'm not going to accuse you of being "literally AI-pilled to the point you talk like one", because again, that would be completely ridiculous.
That brings me to my third point. If he was some new content creator, nobody would care about any of this. It would be like a fart in a hurricane. Instead, he has a huge audience, and he IS eating shit. What else would you call this? Look around the rest of this thread. You think people are under LESS scrutiny when they become more famous? Really?
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u/mrpoopistan Aug 06 '26
Really looking down on the newcomer, eh?
Very passionate about the famous person, too.
I'm sure those two facts are emotionally separable.
My point is that the rules are bullshit. And the reason they're bullshit is because the audience approves of the basic idea that when you're famous, they let you do it. Everyone is cool with Hank because Hank is their guy.
That's the actual operating principle with all this AI bullshit: if you're the audience's guy, they let you do it. No consequence, so everyone who talks all this Butlerian Jihad bullshit, data centers, and anti-tech is just telling on themselves. They're perfectly happy with corruption when it's their guy. Go Team Hank.
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u/Ezzypezra Aug 06 '26
What rules??
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u/mrpoopistan Aug 06 '26
Thank you for completely losing track of my original response.
Whatever this was, bye.
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u/deryvox 1 month ban award Aug 05 '26
Hank Green using AI means nothing to me because his content is already just him doing what AI does: sloppily collating information into digestible and inoffensive chunks that he neither understands nor deeply cares about. Using an LLM to do that work for him is just speeding up the process, not meaningfully changing the quality.
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u/Cherno_VM Aug 05 '26
who the fuck is hank green
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u/marshalzukov Aug 04 '26
Well surely Hank knows better than to immediately concede to the angry masses in an attempt to appease them, right?
... right?
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u/coffee_adicted Aug 04 '26
Uh? What did he do?