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hilarious use of AI found (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is very funny but I’m wondering why you’re posting the German YouTube placeholder unfurl description…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

presumably because awful systems is hosted at Hetzner

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy's servers are probably in germany. I've seen it on my instance too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've definitely seen that kind of thing happen with a Mastodon instance hosted in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

yep, our instance and a ton of mastodon instances are hosted on hetzner (though I think we’re in their Finnish datacenter?) and recently Google made a change that seems to be returning that same German text as the description for every YouTube video requested by a hetzner IP

it’s definitely annoying and user-hostile, but that’s Google for ya