Hank Green, a YouTube creator, was accused of using AI to write a script for a new video after a viewer pointed to the line “I appreciate the pushback,” which he says to himself. In a deleted post on X, Green said he did not use ChatGPT to write the script but used it “for research” and acknowledged the video had “an AI feel.” On the r/nerdfighters subreddit, he said he wasn’t a “pure AI-hater” but admitted his AI use had become unhealthy, that he felt pressured by deadlines, and that he needs to take a break. His fans reacted negatively, citing his history of quality educational content and his environmentalist stance, with his Reddit username being u/ecogeek. Illustrator Megan Ruiz, in a response video, asked whether creators are “putting out things for the sake of it or are we putting out things on the internet because we want to educate or inform people.” Another YouTuber, Carthu's Dojo, wrote on X that “The fact someone like Hank Green was getting dopamine hits from using an LLM should be eye opening for a lot of people. These things make you feel better, smarter, and more knowledgable than you actually are and they feed off that.” The article’s author notes they have used ChatGPT and Claude for troubleshooting tech problems, observing that ChatGPT “likes to treat you like a genius” and is “more inclined to halluc