YouTuber Hank Green has apologised to fans after admitting his ChatGPT use had become compulsive, pausing several of his channels following backlash over an AI-assisted script.
Science YouTuber and novelist Hank Green has publicly apologised to his 3.2 million subscribers after admitting that his growing reliance on ChatGPT had spiralled into something he himself called unhealthy. The admission followed days of backlash from fans who accused him of quietly outsourcing his writing to artificial intelligence.
The video that sparked the backlash
The controversy began after Complexly, the educational YouTube channel Green runs with his brother John, uploaded an episode of 'Ask Hank Anything' featuring TikTok creator SoupyTime. Midway through the video, Green used the phrase "I appreciate the pushback," an oddly formal turn of phrase that viewers immediately flagged as sounding like a chatbot response rather than something Green would say off the cuff. Eagle eyed fans also pointed to an unusually dense cluster of fact-checking correction cards inserted through the episode, each flagging claims that researchers could not verify, covering subjects ranging from cat saliva to mantis shrimp vision.
Green's first response and the deeper admission
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