Google Tweaks Super Bowl Ad With AI Giving Wrong Cheese Stat [Video]

Google tweaked one of its Super Bowl ads posted on YouTube after the AI featured in it displayed an inaccurate cheese statistic.

The original video showing off Google’s Gemini offerings in Workspace was posted five days ago and showed the AI generating a response for a small-business owner in Wisconsin. In the response, Gemini claims Gouda accounts for “50 to 60% of the world’s cheese consumption.”

The edited ad now shows a Gemini response that says Gouda “is one of the most popular cheeses in the world.”

A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that it consulted with the business owner from the ad about how he would handle the situation “after the question came up about the Gouda stat.”

“Following his suggestion to have Gemini rewrite the product description without the stat, we updated the UI to reflect what the business would …