Google Re-Edited Its AI-Generated Super Bowl Ad Because of a ‘Cheesy’ Fact Error
When the Super Bowl airs on Sunday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m., one ad from Google will run with some last-minute alterations.Last week, an X user posted that one of Google's new Super Bowl ads about a Wisconsin cheese market owner was "AI slop" and is "unequivocally false." In the commercial, the company's Gemini AI tool writes a product description that says, "Gouda accounts for 50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption." The post has screenshots of the alleged error.Related: A Company Is Giving Away $10,000 Every Second During the Final 2 Minutes of the Super Bowl"Cheddar & mozzarella would like a word," the post continues.Google's President of Cloud Applications, Jerry Dischler, replied to the post, saying that the copy is "not a hallucination" and the stat was found in multiple ...