YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ | TechCrunch
Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ | TechCrunch Image Credits: Monica Schipper / Getty Images Media & Entertainment YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ Anthony Ha 12:45 PM PDT · August 1, 2026 Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers , recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots. 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
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