Hank Green

We've gotten some of those things, and they have done that.

They've stopped.

But for a long time, they did do stuff like that.

They were like, we want educational content for this age range, and we want – you know, we recognize that it's very – so in particular, like –

Eight to 12 is a real no man's land in terms of being able to fund content.

With younger than that, there's more granting organizations that want to fund it.

And there's like PBS stuff.

And then with like older than that, the kids are making their own decisions and they're watching Mr. Beast.

But that middle area, there's not a lot to do there, which I think is an interesting problem to try and solve.

And so YouTube did that for a while.

Our show, SciShow Kids, was created through them giving us some money.

I'm like the most biased person you can talk to about YouTube because I've had a really productive relationship with them over the years.

They've responded when I've criticized them about things.

This has stopped a little bit.

Honestly, like, you know, I criticize them about sort of not telling us, not really saying out loud that they're training AI with our content, but doing it and and basically saying, like, this is a competitive advantage.

We have we can just like pop into our license that now we can do this and everybody's going to agree with the license because it's not like they're going to stop uploading on YouTube anymore.

We're going to say, not only are we going to use this, we have permission to use this.

And unlike all these other companies that trained on a bunch of non-consensual data, we trained on consensual data.

And by consensual, it's like we put it in the license and then everybody agreed to it because they had no choice.

And nobody even knew that that was happening.