Post #4482625

2026-08-09 21:54 UTC

The fallout from "No, not Hank Green using that AI" is at the stage where people are debating if "canceling" people is bad. This because about 10k people unsubscribed from his youTube channel, something that probably caused him to take stock and leave the internet for a bit. Unsubscribing from a youTube channel isn't "canceling" someone. Can we all calm down please? Also, that he used AI isn't really the big issue, it has just formed a concise talking point around something bigger.

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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-08-10 01:43

@futurebird@sauropods.win what's wrong with being a doomer on AI? I've been an AI skeptic for the longest time, but since I've still been doing transformer research in the meantime, I've seen it progress from irrelevance to being on the cusp of recursive self improvement. It doesn't matter it's now not fully capable of RSI, but the ratchet effect of RSI means it's too late to worry about it after it's been achieved

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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-08-09 21:58

I've only really seen Pivot to AI pick up on this, but Hank Green has some tangental involvement with "Effective Alturists." One big aspect of Effective altruism (EA) is AI doomerism. AI is a world changing technology (they believe) and we need to take it seriously in *that* way or ... terrible things may happen. That doomerism is also a different kind of effective marketing for AI concerns me deeply.

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@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org 2026-08-09 22:05

@futurebird@sauropods.win I’ve been there in that, in the past, I’ve used AI to “soften” the tone of my posts so that they wouldn’t result in unforeseen conflict. However, my stance is that your thoughts should be your genuine thoughts if you are presenting them as your thoughts. And for this reason, I’ve also lessened my use of AI because I don’t need it to write for me—just make sure that what I write aligns with my intentions.

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@CStamp@mastodon.social 2026-08-09 22:09

@futurebird@sauropods.win It’s as if some folk feel they are owed an audience. Folk will support folk they want to support.

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