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Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video
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In brief
An AI system built by Synthetic Media Generation Technology Developers and Synthetic Image Generation Technology Developers and deployed by Youtube Content Creators, Synthetic Media Creators and 3 others allegedly harmed Youtube Users, Social Media Users and 1 other.
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- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 1 report
What happened
Science communicator and YouTuber Hank Green reportedly included an AI-generated scientific image containing factual and mathematical errors in a YouTube educational video. Green later said he knew the image was AI-generated when he used it and removed it after recognizing problems with the graphic.
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News reports (1)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Youtube Content Creators, Synthetic Media Creators, Science Communicators, Hank Green, Content Creators
- Alleged developer
- Synthetic Media Generation Technology Developers, Synthetic Image Generation Technology Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Youtube Users, Social Media Users, Epistemic Integrity
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Source record: incident #1637 on the AI Incident Database · all 1 report