Four words got a science YouTuber accused of being a robot.
The evidence was that the words sounded like a robot.
viewers decided a four-word line in a Hank Green video, 'I appreciate the pushback', was AI-generated text left in the script.
Before you read on. Your call?
BS
4 words, 0 evidence
the entire case is that the phrase is one chatbots use often. No draft, no metadata, no artifact. Green says the line was an impromptu reply to a guest in the episode. A phrase sounding like AI is not proof it is AI.
The twist
the mob was wrong on the evidence and accidentally right about something next door. Prodded by the reaction, Green admitted he had used ChatGPT for research on the script and called the reward he got from it not healthy. The detection was vibes. The vibes happened to point at a real thing.
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Receipts
- Context scientificamerican.com:
were enough to make some viewers suspect the voice of artificial intelligence
- Refutes techcrunch.com:
line was actually a response to the episode's guest
- Context techcrunch.com:
is not healthy for me
- Context fortune.com:
a phrase commonly used by chatbots
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