YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
YouTuber Hank Green 表示他使用 AI 的方式“不健康”
Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots. Hank Green 是一位拥有 320 万订阅者的小说家、喜剧演员兼 YouTuber，他最近向观众道歉，承认自己对 AI 聊天机器人的依赖日益加深。
The controversy started when, in the middle of a video posted on the educational channel Complexly, Green incongruously used the phrase “I appreciate the pushback,” leading viewers to speculate that he’d written the script with a chatbot — and, in the process, accidentally included its response to one of his prompts. 争议始于他在教育频道 Complexly 发布的一段视频中，Green 不合时宜地使用了“我很感激这种反驳（I appreciate the pushback）”这一短语，导致观众猜测他是用聊天机器人写的脚本，并在过程中不小心把机器人对他提示词的回复也放了进去。
In a since-deleted post on X, Green acknowledged that he’d produced the video “under a ton of pressure” and used ChatGPT “for research on this script.” At the same time, he said the “pushback” line was actually a response to the episode’s guest. 在 X 上的一篇现已被删除的帖子中，Green 承认他是在“巨大的压力下”制作了该视频，并使用 ChatGPT “为该脚本进行研究”。同时，他表示那句“反驳”其实是对该集嘉宾的回应。
Green then offered a more in-depth apology on Reddit, where he said he was “mortified” that he’d “let so many people down” and that he plans to reduce his video production as a result. Green insisted that he’s only used ChatGPT to “locate papers and other resources for learning about topics,” and that the words and the “takes” have still been his. 随后，Green 在 Reddit 上进行了更深入的道歉，称自己因为“让这么多人失望”而感到“羞愧”，并计划因此减少视频产量。Green 坚称他仅使用 ChatGPT 来“查找论文和其他学习主题的资源”，而文案和“观点”仍然是他自己的。
At the same time, he admitted it was fair to criticize him for “diluting” himself. He also clarified that he’s “not a pure AI-hater,” while also listing a number of concerns about the technology, including its impact on climate change and “the speed at which these companies are trying to consolidate economic power.” 同时，他也承认，批评他“稀释”了个人特色是合理的。他还澄清自己“并非纯粹的 AI 仇恨者”，但也列举了对该技术的诸多担忧，包括其对气候变化的影响，以及“这些公司试图巩固经济权力的速度”。
“Ultimately, what I am most scared of is ruining myself for people, but I have not been managing my impulses well,” he said. “You need to know that my words are mine. I don’t think that this hasn’t been true, but I’ve been moving so fast that my own process isn’t actually clear to me and I want to have it be a guarantee moving forward.” “归根结底，我最害怕的是在人们面前毁掉自己，但我一直没能很好地控制自己的冲动，”他说。“你们需要知道，我的话是我自己的。我不认为这一点曾有过虚假，但我行动得太快，以至于我自己的创作过程实际上变得模糊不清，我希望在未来能对此做出保证。”
It sounds like Green is going to take some time to figure out how to make that guarantee a reality. In the meantime, he’ll be pausing or posting less frequently to his various YouTube channels. Green said he wants to do more work like a recent meditative video “where the writing was the whole thing and I felt it all the way down.” 听起来 Green 将花些时间来思考如何实现这一保证。在此期间，他将暂停或减少在各个 YouTube 频道上的更新频率。Green 表示，他想做更多像最近那段冥想视频一样的工作，“那段视频的文案就是全部，我从心底里感受到了它。”
Green also said he’ll probably make more videos with his “dumb unscripted straight to camera thoughts.” “But mostly I need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I’ve been getting from interacting with LLMs…with doing more and more and more and more…is not healthy for me or good for the world,” Green said. “It is careless, and has disconnected me from where people are on this.” Green 还表示，他可能会制作更多“对着镜头即兴表达的愚蠢想法”的视频。“但最重要的是，我需要接受一个事实：我从与大语言模型（LLM）互动中获得的多巴胺水平……通过不断地做、做、做……对我自己来说是不健康的，对世界也不好，”Green 说。“这很草率，也让我与人们对此事的真实感受脱节了。”