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Hank: follow his personal AI policy for his videos: no LLM-written scripts, human theses, no AI images or music, no LLM sources (2026)

promise · status: standing commitment (last affirmed 2026) · last event: promised (2026-08-07) · owner: Hank

In August 2026, having become too reliant on large language models for advice, editing and sourcing, Hank followed Complexly's lead and set himself a personal AI policy for his videos.

About: large language model, Complexly

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2026-08-07 promised Following Complexly's lead, Hank is creating an AI policy for himself, having become too reliant on LLMs for advice, editing and sourcing. Just Trying to Figure Out My Job 00:03:21

What is said about it

3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job — announcement: Hank's AI policy, rule 1: no portion of any script will be written, edited or outlined by an LLM. — video description
  • 2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job — announcement: Hank's AI policy, rule 4, added on August 7 after reading the comments: LLM outputs will never be trusted as a source. — video description
  • 2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job — Hank says that last week (week of 27 July 2026) he posted publicly about being enticed by LLMs, using them to start projects, prototype a game and research many topics at once, until every problem looked LLM-shaped, which he calls dumb. — 00:01:54