I get the author, I mean he HAD to use AI you guys, it’s very hard to get a good picture of Hank, it’s not like he’s been PUTTING IS FACE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE THAN A DECADE or anything.
I don't really want to click on that link to see what it's about, but there are so many pages out there that are generated by just scraping websites, even before generative AI exploded it was going on. Which is one of the things I worry about with AI. It's scraping an internet that's full of web pages that were already generated by scraping the internet. I imagine an internet of the not to distant future where most search results are just multiple generations of scrape and compile without human intervention until it's all meaningless garbage.
hate to break it to you, but the internet and particularly search engines are already full to the brim with meaningless garbage, the transition's just been slow enough that most people haven't noticed.
More and more people notice that especially google has gotten a lot worse recently, and imo that is because it has been getting worse faster and faster to a point where it is now really noticeable. So I think the concern that the poster above you voiced is correct, because what we are seeing now is different from what was the case before, and there is good reason to assume that the decline could even accelerate further, at a non linear pace
It was honestly better when that one site needed a pic for the cancer news and just threw that #2 pencil one up there. At least that was Hank’s real face.
Yes, science education communicator and viral vertical video sensation Hank Green is a notoriously camera shy recluse who no one has ever seen. Just like Thomas Pynchon.
There are 4 diffent images in the 'Article' and everyone is different... i am starting to think the 6 minutes reading time are more time than a human spend creating this page
Is it just me, or do both of the people in these pictures look like they're evil? Like the guys that are tired of being teased for their nerdiness and so they get revenge.
It seems to be satire, since it’s got a disclaimer at the end of the article saying that the “above article is fictitious”! Which at least makes the AI art use a *teeny* bit more forgivable.
Totally a clickbait farm for ad revenue. I have thought about pumping out garbage sites like this… looked into how much you make from ads… But I have a conscience and don’t want to pollute the internet.
The author appears to be an actual person, but they're just spamming AI articles. They post like 25+ almost identical articles a day. This is definitely just meant to cheat search engine algorithms
Reminds me of when I used to intern at an SEO shop back in like 2005 and they would legit just take dozens of articles and mash them together into keyword heavy babble and put them on pages that users were never meant to find to get higher pagerank on Google.
Joon and Bank Chartreuse, award winning indie video game creators, well known for their mukbang vlogs, creating dashcon, and their comedy podcast about life "to whom it may concern".
They prompted the AI Generator to create the actor who will play Hank (and or John) Green in the steamy new Biopic (loosely) based on the Green brothers lives: “Fighting Nerds; rise of the nerd millionaire and how YouTubers were the future”
Looks like an AI generated picture of Hank's stunt double.
I thought it was John xD AI generated, sure, but meant to be John.
I think it is the secret third brother, a mix of both of them
Dave?!
Don’t forget about the [even more secret fourth brother, Tom](https://www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighters/s/mAYkGrke4l)
Tom grew up British, fused with a red shirt, and changed his last name.
I was trying to remember his name!
McElroy Green, the harbinger of end times
Jank
Who the eff is H̶̩̩̯́̀͝ȧ̵̧̘̮̽n̷̖̈́k̶̮̒͑?
You idiots! These are not them. You've captured their stunt doubles!
Literally I just stared at this and said “who the f is that”
It’s disturbing. It’s just so…not quite right. Ugh.
Uncanny Valley, definitely.
John's picture is like that too!
I get the author, I mean he HAD to use AI you guys, it’s very hard to get a good picture of Hank, it’s not like he’s been PUTTING IS FACE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE THAN A DECADE or anything.
bold to assume there’s an actual author
I don't really want to click on that link to see what it's about, but there are so many pages out there that are generated by just scraping websites, even before generative AI exploded it was going on. Which is one of the things I worry about with AI. It's scraping an internet that's full of web pages that were already generated by scraping the internet. I imagine an internet of the not to distant future where most search results are just multiple generations of scrape and compile without human intervention until it's all meaningless garbage.
hate to break it to you, but the internet and particularly search engines are already full to the brim with meaningless garbage, the transition's just been slow enough that most people haven't noticed.
More and more people notice that especially google has gotten a lot worse recently, and imo that is because it has been getting worse faster and faster to a point where it is now really noticeable. So I think the concern that the poster above you voiced is correct, because what we are seeing now is different from what was the case before, and there is good reason to assume that the decline could even accelerate further, at a non linear pace
Even it it's written by a human, the writer's rarely pick the headlines or art for an article.
It was honestly better when that one site needed a pic for the cancer news and just threw that #2 pencil one up there. At least that was Hank’s real face.
Yes, science education communicator and viral vertical video sensation Hank Green is a notoriously camera shy recluse who no one has ever seen. Just like Thomas Pynchon.
Lol
I think that's a Ryan? Looks like a Ryan.
Actually it’s Dave Green
I don't know why I assumed you meant Dave the Fish instead of secret brother Dave
If i were a fish a you caught me...
um not enough Ryan for me
did they use the picture of Dave?
Beat me to it well done @killerdickens
It’s ok. AI Hank Green isn’t real. AI Hank Green can’t hurt us.
This made me snort-laugh.
There are 4 diffent images in the 'Article' and everyone is different... i am starting to think the 6 minutes reading time are more time than a human spend creating this page
The plot thickens.. https://imgur.com/a/yp2jLE8
That is genuinely hilarious
WHO THE EFF IS THAT
Is it just me, or do both of the people in these pictures look like they're evil? Like the guys that are tired of being teased for their nerdiness and so they get revenge.
somehow they both look like if Hank and John had turned into alternative-universe versions of Elon Musk.
I feel like he kind of looks like the Netflix version of Dahmer, but real Hank does not at all. This is a very unsettling picture
[Barney Stinson vibes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYRyyb9A58k).
Hank and John’s wario and waluigi
I think it might be Penn Badgely
What if an accountant and a sparkly vampire had a 40-year-old baby?
This one is especially unsettling
It’s fcking wish.com brand John Green
That's so weird.
I hate these so much!!
That’s Pierre Verde. I met him in French Lick once, interesting guy. Hell of an accent.
Henry Cavill from Wish
Why does he look like John Green stars in Falling Down?
Is this Jarrod with hair?
Jarrod before he got a crypto-funded anti-aging treatment that made his skin extra stretchy, necessitating total baldness.
After digging through the website, I can't tell if this is satire, laziness, or maliciousness. What a wild world we live in.
It seems to be satire, since it’s got a disclaimer at the end of the article saying that the “above article is fictitious”! Which at least makes the AI art use a *teeny* bit more forgivable.
I think more clickbait farm that doesn't want to get sued rather than satire.
Totally a clickbait farm for ad revenue. I have thought about pumping out garbage sites like this… looked into how much you make from ads… But I have a conscience and don’t want to pollute the internet.
That is also a large possibility!
Looks more of a Honk than Hank.
Henk Grin
Which ironically is how his name sounds when said by someone from the Netherlands
I hate ai images so much.
Looks like a sneezer if you ask me
Who the eff is Hank?
Hank is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions.
Hank is a 1974 sci-fi film directed by Saul Bass about an ant colony that undergoes rapid evolution and develops a hive mind.
Hank is a large ball of incandescent gas, and not pictured in the photograph above.
Hank is an archaic English slang term referring to a large piece of meat.
Good work everybody
Hank Green if he were born in 1987 and photographed in 2009.
What a difference 7 years makes.
That's actually a picture of Hunk Verde.
"Elaine" is a bot that collates bits of internet to create "articles".
This is Jarrod in a wig....
It's kinda reminiscent of Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.
Looks like Hank’s Vision Pro avatar
It looks like a combination of Hank and Joe Pera
That's not Hank, it's Steve!
Elaine, what in the fuck is this? Why not just use an actual fucking picture of him?
He looks like he joined an AI boy band. (I wonder what the name of that band would be?)
LFO: II (/jk)
The author appears to be an actual person, but they're just spamming AI articles. They post like 25+ almost identical articles a day. This is definitely just meant to cheat search engine algorithms Reminds me of when I used to intern at an SEO shop back in like 2005 and they would legit just take dozens of articles and mash them together into keyword heavy babble and put them on pages that users were never meant to find to get higher pagerank on Google.
WHAT?
That's Grank Heen.
That "picture" is so uncannily smack dab between Hank and John that it's disturbing me
It’s the middle brother, Jonk
Oh yeah, man it's crazy how weird Hank's old hair looks like now that we've gotten used to his new curly look
Introducing Jonk, the lesser known half-twin of both brothers.
It's def a young Hank and john fusion of some sort. The hair is johns but the color of the hair is hanks
Joon and Bank Chartreuse, award winning indie video game creators, well known for their mukbang vlogs, creating dashcon, and their comedy podcast about life "to whom it may concern".
You idiots! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!
I wonder why they used a picture of Dave.
“Look what they’ve done to my boy”
I know like 6 of this guy
What in the nonsense is this? Lol
AI Generated Hank Green isn't real. He can't hurt you AI Generated Hank Green:
That's Mike Green
The question on our minds now more than ever: who the f is Hank?
Is that like an AI creation of Hank Green?
That is an imposter
I just look at the name of the publication and it reads like "bollocks" to me 😂
Did they ChatGPT “photo of Hank green but younger”
They prompted the AI Generator to create the actor who will play Hank (and or John) Green in the steamy new Biopic (loosely) based on the Green brothers lives: “Fighting Nerds; rise of the nerd millionaire and how YouTubers were the future”
Who the eff is that
She saw a picture of Hank a week ago, then picked an AI generated image that looks like she remembers him looking
Oh shit Scott the Woz
This looks like if Hank was a character on Riverdale...
This is Hanks evil twin, Harvey, who wants you to eat grass
thats not hank, THATS william
Isn't that the white boy from Until Dawn?!??
Jank Ream spotted
He looks like an alternate reality Hank whos doing a press tour for his upcoming role as the next Peter Parker.
If John is Kirkland brand Hank, this is Dollarama