Google Pulls Incorrect Gouda Stat From Its AI Super Bowl Ad

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google has edited Gemini's AI response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about cheese. The ad, which shows a small business owner using Gemini to write a website description about Gouda, no longer says the variety makes up '50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption.'

In the edited YouTube video, Gemini's response now skips over the specifics and says Gouda is 'one of the most popular cheeses in the world.' Google Cloud apps president Jerry Dischler initially defended the response, saying on X it's 'grounded in the Web' and 'not a hallucination.'

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