German language joke links 'Cloud' to 'steals,' claims AI concept origin

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-05-29 12:37

The concept of Artificial Intelligence originated with the Germans, according to a Mastodon post. The post humorously notes that the German word "klaut" (meaning "steals") sounds similar to "Cloud," leading to the playful assertion that cloud services have adopted this behavior. This observation is presented as a linguistic joke rather than a factual claim about AI's origins or cloud service practices. AI

RANK_REASON The item is a social media post making a linguistic joke about the word 'Cloud' and its supposed connection to 'stealing' in German, with a tangential and unsubstantiated claim about the origin of AI.

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Did you know The Germans came up with the concept of AI? We've been making jokes for years about how "Cloud" sounds exactly like "klaut", a declined version of

Did you know The Germans came up with the concept of AI? We've been making jokes for years about how "Cloud" sounds exactly like "klaut", a declined version of "klauen", i.e. "to steal". So, for example, "Google Cloud" sounds just like "Google steals" in German. And so that's wha…

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Did you know The Germans came up with the concept of AI? We've been making jokes for years about how "Cloud" sounds exactly like "klaut", a declined version of

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