# "Something went wrong, try again later"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-went-wrong-try-again-later/1030238
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 20, 2026, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-went-wrong-try-again-later/1030238 "2026-05-20T10:09:59Z")
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2026, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-went-wrong-try-again-later/1030238/41 "2026-05-23T09:24:15Z")
Hey, look at that, google flow gave me a reasonable error message:
“I can’t generate the image you requested right now due to interests of third-party content providers. Please edit your prompt and try again.”
I was generating images of star trek battles and apparetly 1/4 of those images were too adjacent to copyrighted material even though all of them were designed to look like star trek. But hey, I’m happy. That error message makes sense. It’s saying “this is too close to copyrighted works”, I can work with that information. Unlike the “something failed, fuck off” style of messages about my flying humpbacks. So their error system can apparently be specific and useful when it wants to be. It just doesn’t usually want to be.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2026, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-went-wrong-try-again-later/1030238/42 "2026-05-23T09:40:09Z")
And just as I praise them for getting something right, my very next generation attempt stopped me before it started and said “Something went wrong. Please try again.”
I did try again. and it worked. so at least that actually WAS transient. But it often isn’t.
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