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Green is paid by organization(s) aligned with the AI industry, and has demonstrated he will frame his content around the ideas these organizations are pushing. The AI industry has a very specific take on this question in furtherance of their own goals. This show/channel/person could not be more biased, in that sense. I view them as a force of miseducation. As you note, it works by superficially aping entities like PBS that people trust, and functions to "science wash" content that has a manipulative purpose.
PBS has its issues, no doubt, but it's a member-station-supported non-profit organization with federal licensure requirements. PBS is supported by member station dues, some of which in turn come from individual donations to the member stations. Till 2025 it was also funded by CPB, which was formed by an act of Congress in 1967. All of this entails a fair amount of accountability for content. It is a categorically different organizational structure from "science commentators" on Youtube, and treating the content of the two as similar because of superficial resemblances in production quality is very dangerous, in my opinion.
"how will LLMs change the demand for code?"Regardless of where you stand on any of what follows, I submit there far, far superior sources to someone like Hank Green if this is genuinely a question that's of interest.
Green is paid by organization(s) aligned with the AI industry, and has demonstrated he will frame his content around the ideas these organizations are pushing. The AI industry has a very specific take on this question in furtherance of their own goals. This show/channel/person could not be more biased, in that sense. I view them as a force of miseducation. As you note, it works by superficially aping entities like PBS that people trust, and functions to "science wash" content that has a manipulative purpose.
PBS has its issues, no doubt, but it's a member-station-supported non-profit organization with federal licensure requirements. PBS is supported by member station dues, some of which in turn come from individual donations to the member stations. Till 2025 it was also funded by CPB, which was formed by an act of Congress in 1967. All of this entails a fair amount of accountability for content. It is a categorically different organizational structure from "science commentators" on Youtube, and treating the content of the two as similar because of superficial resemblances in production quality is very dangerous, in my opinion.