Mat

I was watching the new #Veritasium video about zippers and, while the start of the video was great and informative, I noticed the #Hostinger sponsor spot promotes running "AI". Due to this video, now 4M people (minus #SponsorBlock users) have had this terrible idea promoted to them and at least some will probably end up deploying it, causing even further damage to the internet and broadening the "AI" DDoS's power.

I stopped watching and removed Veritasium from my RSS feed. Shame :/

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Show threadMat4h ago
Ran out of characters but wanted to write as well that, assuming they were in the loop, I will not be considering #Hostinger for any cloud/VPS stuff in the future, and will discourage my peers from doing so. All my stuff is self-hosted on my own hardware, thankfully, so I don't need to move anything.
Show threadOndřej Pokorný1h ago
@allpurposemat Probably related to Veritasium being one of the many YouTube channels owned by a private equity company... https://www.electrify.video/news/electrify-completes-majority-investment-in-veritasium
Electrify

Show threadMat52m ago

@ondra uh oh. I did hear about that but never looked into it, perhaps Electrify picked the sponsor for the video and they just had to go with it?

Either way, a lot of trust lost unfortunately.

Show threadOndřej Pokorný43m ago

@allpurposemat It's nicely explained in this video, especially starting at 8:05: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ-rRXWhElI

It's very likely this sponsor was picked for all the assets of this private equity firm because the sponsor is currently full of the sweet sweet AI VC money to spend on advertising.

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