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YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use (gizmodo.com)
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[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't generally click on random YouTube videos unless more information is provided, but I give this one a gamble. It was pretty well done and I appreciate the creators overall point and evidence. For anyone else in the comments, I think there are two couple of second long clips of Hank Green that are used to make a larger point about what are essentially attempts at normalizing AI.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Right after posting this, I stumbled on basically a text version of the same sentiment. I can understand not wanting to trust a random YouTube video, even if it is about a guy who most people know due to his own YouTube videos.

The post being: https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Echo the other commenter, wow this dude can write.

It's sad, I noticed this too. I excitedly clicked a Hank Green video about energy and water usage on datacenters and was SUPER disappointed in it. I've worked in energy generation as an engineer for a while, and some of the takes in that video were so obviously big tech's doomerism rhetoric

[–] Curiositymonger@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

Wow, this guy can write. When I got to “The Ghost Stories of Savannah”, I thought for moment that it was an unnecessary detour - then I saw it.