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Gemini's Super Bowl ad said Gouda is 50-60% of world cheese consumption
What the AI said
Gouda accounts for '50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption'.
What was actually true
A Cornell agricultural economist told The Verge Gouda 'is almost assuredly not the most widely consumed' cheese. The stat appears to come from cheese.com.
Cost or impact
Google re-edited the ad. The featured business had used the text on its real website and removed the claim. A Google Cloud executive had first defended it as 'not a hallucination'.
Who caught it
unknown (The Verge says 'the question came up'; the edit was spotted by X user @natejhake)
Check that would have caught it Our analysis
source citation. 'Grounded in the web' isn't a citation. A statistic needs a named primary source that holds up.
This is our judgment, not something the sources say. How we assign it.
Sources
- theverge.comhttps://www.theverge.com/news/606467/google-ai-super-bowl-ad-gouda-error-removed
- bbc.comhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j15r1g09o
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