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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2378 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 21, 2026

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After Hank Green's raking trough the coals for drinking the unholy water and eating the flesh of the Antichrist - aka using chatgpt to write his scripts - which other channels do you suspect of using it? I am fairly sure about Sabine Hossenfelder and Mentour Pilot in the last week.

I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of Tom & Don's filler videos have their scripts heavily written by AI. But they also frequently go off script laughing at how retarded the script is, so I can't exactly hold it against them. The script just serves as the launch point for them to start clowning on whatever the script is talking about.

Also, Space King 5 at the end of the month, praise be.

There's a comedy formula from the Ricky Gervais show: two guys and an idiot. The idiot says things, one guy rips into him, and the other guy pulls the first guy back a bit to add nuance or let the idiot dig the hole deeper. I've seen this done with Let's Plays, where the (ideally janky or bad) video game serves as the idiot.

Since an AI will reliably make facile, wishy-washy statements, it makes for a good idiot. It'll also repeat the Party Line of whatever's currently PC.

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