Hank: AI like ChatGPT will be great at getting people to dislike each other more (2022)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2025-10-17) · owner: Hank
About: ChatGPT, artificial intelligence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-09 | predicted | Hank thinks such AI will be great at easy problems, like getting people to dislike each other more. | Things are Changing Very Fast 00:02:55 |
| 2025-10-17 | repeated | Admitting his bias, Hank says we need to worry whether AI will continue us down the path of losing trust in each other and faith in humanity. | We Never Know What Anything Means 00:03:40 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — In a channel comment Hank says he, not ChatGPT, wrote this video, and admits he is also a little stressed. — video description
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says ChatGPT is not good at replacing Wikipedia: it confidently states true and untrue things alike, and only fact-checking tells them apart. — 00:02:55
- 2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — Hank says the recommendation algorithms of YouTube, TikTok, Threads and Twitter already erode trust without wanting to: told to keep people on websites, they made us hate each other more, fraying society. — 00:03:50
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says making people afraid and angry at each other is a trivial problem for AI: it only has to emulate a human at their worst, and at our worst we are not complex. — 00:03:24
- 2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast — Hank says fast change in people and societies is usually not fun; he wouldn't mind things getting less interesting for a while, but we don't get to choose. — 00:03:49