Two things are true: one, the “I appreciate the pushback” line was regarding his guest, not a leftover AI thing. Two, this is still strikes 2 and 3 for me. Been wary of him ever since the knitting debacle, and AI use is a bridge too far
Been a minute since I watched it, but essentially Scishow did an episode about the science of knitting (and other forms of fabric crafting, which they did not adequately distinguish between) without consulting a single person who knits. It came off as really dismissive of the craft, like it’s somehow super surprising that knitting is actually interesting.
I’ll update this comment with a better explanation after work, check back in 12 hours
I got this vibe from stuff you should know podcast once early on, but after i was mad at them for a while, I still listen, and they seem to do a better job now.
When you’re making edutainment for a general audience, there’s going to be some things that will seem obvious to experts, so i can’t really knock them for that.
But I can knock them for not doing their research and putting out wrong information, especially if they don’t retract it later.
Two things are true: one, the “I appreciate the pushback” line was regarding his guest, not a leftover AI thing. Two, this is still strikes 2 and 3 for me. Been wary of him ever since the knitting debacle, and AI use is a bridge too far
Willing to elaborate on “knitting debacle”? I’m a late and infrequent watcher of his YouTube channel.
Been a minute since I watched it, but essentially Scishow did an episode about the science of knitting (and other forms of fabric crafting, which they did not adequately distinguish between) without consulting a single person who knits. It came off as really dismissive of the craft, like it’s somehow super surprising that knitting is actually interesting.
I’ll update this comment with a better explanation after work, check back in 12 hours
I got this vibe from stuff you should know podcast once early on, but after i was mad at them for a while, I still listen, and they seem to do a better job now.
When you’re making edutainment for a general audience, there’s going to be some things that will seem obvious to experts, so i can’t really knock them for that.
But I can knock them for not doing their research and putting out wrong information, especially if they don’t retract it later.
That’s enough for me tbh, thanks!
Oh no! Not the knitting debacle