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

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[–] [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