Longtime YouTuber and science content creator Hank Green has announced that his main channel will likely be \u201cpaused\u201d as he deals with his admitted overreliance on ChatGPT and other AI tools after some fans claimed a recent video included him reading AI-generated language.<\/p>\n
On July 29, a new episode of Ask Hank Anything<\/a> was uploaded to the YouTube channel Complexly, a popular science-focused education channel created in 2017 that is part of a larger network of educational channels and programs<\/a> that Hank and his brother John Green started nearly 15 years ago. In the recent episode, TikToker SoupyTime appeared and asked Hank Green some questions, which he then answered in a silly but informative way. Pretty standard stuff for the channel.<\/p>\n But one moment went viral online that had Green, in a segment recorded later, saying \u201cI appreciate the pushback\u201d in the context of discussing a disagreement seen earlier in the episode. Some claimed this was him reading the kind of answer you might get from ChatGPT when generating content and asking the AI to make changes.<\/p>\n Not long after that clip started spreading online and people were accusing him of writing scripts with AI, Green posted a tweet denying that the line in question was written by AI or by himself; instead, it was an ad lib he added during filming. But he also admitted that he does use ChatGPT for research and agreed that his script sounded too much like AI.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say I was relying too much on [AI] generated notes,\u201d tweeted Green. \u201cThat\u2019s a thing I\u2019ve been doing, and it\u2019s a bad habit at a time when I\u2019ve overcommitted myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Green has since deleted the tweet, but publicly shared a link to a Reddit post<\/a> that includes an image of the original tweet. Green offered up a lengthy reply<\/a> in the comments below that Reddit post, apologizing to fans he let down while also explaining how he is likely going to pause his main channel and try to stop creating as much content as he currently does. He also acknowledged that he has an unhealthy relationship with generative AI tools like ChatGPT.<\/p>\n \u201cI need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I\u2019ve been getting from interacting with LLMs\u2013with doing more and more and more and more\u2013is not healthy for me or good for the world,\u201d said Green. \u201cIt is careless, and has disconnected me from where people are on this. I was talking about this with [my wife] last night, and she did not pull any punches. Frankly, neither did [my brother]. Neither of them think I\u2019ve been being healthy. I need to readjust.\u201d<\/p>\n While some shared criticism about his apology and pointed to Green\u2019s dependency on AI as a sign of how this tech can rot even smart people\u2019s brains, many of his fans seemed happy that Hank was seemingly listening and changing.<\/p>\n \u201cAs someone who also struggles to know when to slow down versus when to dive into my interests and create,\u201d said a fan on Reddit, \u201cI appreciate your candor about the balance between the two.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am also in agreement with everyone here that we do not want to see your personality fade from the forefront of your content,\u201d said another fan in a reply that Green called \u201ckind-hearted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime YouTuber and science content creator Hank Green has announced that his main channel will likely be \u201cpaused\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,1921,238635,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-hank-green","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}