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OpenAI does a Super Bowl ad, Google’s ad uses bad stats from Gemini (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

somehow it got even worse

Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl. The ad shows a business owner using Gemini to write a website description, but the text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business’s website since at least August 2020

also they doubled down on the bad stat

The ad originally had Gemini present copy stating that Gouda accounts for “50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption” — which is not true. Google later edited the commercial to take out the stat, while the business owner also removed it from their website.

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But Google maintained that the website description was written by Gemini all along. In addition to showing Gemini “generate” the description in the commercial, Google Cloud apps president Jerry Dischler said on X that the Gouda stat was “not a hallucination,” adding that “Gemini is grounded in the Web.”

also also they later doubled down on lying that Gemini wrote the whole page? it’s… really embarrassing that Google’s marketing team doesn’t know about web archives

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl.

google? lying in their autoplag ads? a fine tradition

... that the Gouda stat was “not a hallucination,” adding that “Gemini is grounded in the Web.”

it's astounding how much this shows a lack of knowledge/grok regarding their own goddamn operations on the current web