Hank Green and William Osman during Ask Hank Anything Live at Open Sauce 2026, a separate event 11 days before the Complexly video discussed here. Photo: Tessa Bury, cropped by Nowpinion, CC BY 4.0.Tessa Bury via Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalanalysis
Hank Green sounded like ChatGPT. There was just one problem.
Four ordinary words triggered an AI scandal, then the evidence complicated almost every side. The useful question is not whether a machine touched the work. It is what the human did next.