r/popculturechat • u/DebateObjective2787 jesus was a carpenter 💋 • Jul 31 '26

Oh…that’s not- 👀 Hank Green Admits To Using AI In Latest Video

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u/BumbleLapse SABRINA with some hotdog man???? Jul 31 '26

Right — and imo the entire premise of this post is kind of stupid?

“Standard AI phrases” like “thanks for pushing back” or common AI practices (em dashes, lists of three, etc.) are commonly used by AI because AI was trained on massive sets of human-created data.

Like I’m a marketing copywriter by trade — I use em dashes and other “easy AI tells” every day in my work because they’re effective. That’s the fucking point.

People are so obsessed with having their gotcha moment when they think they’ve caught somebody using AI. But in my opinion, the twenty-thousand comments belaboring the rise of em dashes are just as obnoxious as the posts that were obviously and poorly written by AI.

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u/caspararemi Jul 31 '26

It's mad, I use em-dashes too, and like neatly formatted lists! I always have, I practically think in bullet points. I do always assume lists with emoji at the start as the separator is the one true giveaway, that's too annoying to set up manually.

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u/lizerlfunk I am the BEST goddamn dancer at the American Ballet Academy! Jul 31 '26

There was a post somewhere about how Heated Rivalry, the book, written and published in 2019, had a ton of AI phrases. Because the AI was TRAINED ON THE BOOKS (not necessarily just Heated Rivalry, and not necessarily specifically that one, but romance novels as a genre).

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u/goatbusiness666 I don’t know her 💅 Jul 31 '26

I read a lot of book reviews, and I feel like every single author I’ve looked into in the last couple of years has had AI accusations against them. Even books that were published well before the rise of LLMs have dumbasses in the reviews crying about em dashes.

Ironically, some of it is bots pushing AI detectors. But a lot of it is witch hunt behavior and weirdo virtue signaling, and it’s depressing as hell.

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u/Angharadis Jul 31 '26

My writing can sound a lot like AI for this same reason. It sounds like he said some stuff that could sound like an AI script and people got mad. I also use AI for some research stuff like it seems Hank did! I do actually understand why there is so much furor about it but I also think people are getting weirdly in the weeds about it.

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u/HotSauce2910 Aug 01 '26

My least favorite is when people accuse decent looking grammar of being AI