‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think
Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as “not healthy,” but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts.
Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of the internet has centered on how a creator can square a brand built on authenticity and credibility with a technology trained on the (often uncompensated) works of others, and which has a well-known tendency to generate plausible-sounding falsehoods. Some attention has fallen on Green’s description of what appears to be an unhealthy reliance on the technology.
But his case points to a much larger gap in our understanding of AI’s psychological impact. Here, most public discussion is clustered around two poles: apparently benign use on one end, and self-evidently problematic cases involving psychiatric care, delusions,...
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