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."

But everyone already knows

[Valgrus Thunderaxe]

Gouda is the best.

Re: But everyone already knows

[tchdab1]

Grounded in the Web is a hallucination. There are facts here, there are mistakes, and there are deliberate lies.

Re: But everyone already knows

[dj245]

And there are also people responsible for putting this in a multi-million dollar Superbowl ad without catching this relatively obvious error.

Re: But everyone already knows

[SchroedingersCat]

Prove that it isn't so.

Re:

[falcomadol]

Somehow "GIGO, the web LOLZ" *shrug* is worse than "yeah the software hallucinated we're going to work on improved guardrails to prevent it"

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[wakeboarder]

Don't you mean Gouda is good?

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[Local ID10T]

Gouda is good-ah?

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[Frederic54]

nah, any day, bring me camembert or bleu, real cheese.

Re: But everyone already knows

[ArmoredDragon]

Screw that, pizza should always have mozzarella with a good helping of pineapple.

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[thegarbz]

There's nothing real about a cheese that you can spread with a knife. REAL cheese is aged for years and should crumble when you start to cut it.

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[dunkelfalke]

Any cheese made from curdled milk is real.

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[Big Hairy Gorilla]

Sacre Bleu! The French would like a word with you.

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[fahrbot-bot]

There's nothing real about a cheese that you can spread with a knife. REAL cheese is aged for years and should crumble when you start to cut it.

Brie would like to have a word with you ...

(The cheese [wikipedia.org], not the actress [wikipedia.org] or other actress [wikipedia.org]... :-) )

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[Kernel Kurtz]

There's nothing real about a cheese that you can spread with a knife. REAL cheese is aged for years and should crumble when you start to cut it.

I notice this with a local cheesemaker that has 3, 4 and 5 year old cheddar. I like the tase of the older cheese better, but the texture makes it hard to use in things that call for slices. Best if you melt it on/in something.

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[techno-vampire]

If you want a great mold ripened cheese, try some Cambozola [wikipedia.org] Cheese. It's got the same exterior mold as Camembert along with the blue veins that characterize Bleu and Roquefort cheeses.

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[fahrbot-bot]

Gouda is the best.

Don't know about that, but it's certainly Gouda enough. :-)

So what is the actual consumption

[wakeboarder]

I want to know

rewrite history

[SumDog]

Last year, the NFL edited a mistake out of part of the halftime show. It was a small one, but it's interesting to see the rewriting of history

https://odysee.com/@truthstrea... [odysee.com]

From the article

[RitchCraft]

From the article: "A disclaimer beneath Gemini’s response says it’s “not intended to be factual,”" - then why advertise it as such? Companies claim AI will help to counter misinformation. I see the opposite.

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[thegarbz]

Companies claim AI will help to counter misinformation. I see the opposite.

No you misunderstand. By flooding the world with complete bullshit no one will believe anything anymore and misinformation will stop being viable to spread!

cheese

[toxonix]

I'm lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!

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[bill_mcgonigle]

*insensitive curd.

Forget Gouda

[JamesTRexx]

Just wait until Chinese probes return parts of the moon continiously, Moon cheese will leave eery other variety in the (moon) dust.

PS I only buy cheap 48+ cheese for any use at home unless I'm in the mood for a good cheese selection at a good restaurant.

Missed opportunity

[davide marney]

Google missed the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how to use AI in the real world: fact-check the output with a Google search.

GIGO

[Retired Chemist]

Any of these models are only as good as their input. The internet is full of garbage. Probably more of it is garbage than actually correct. Any model trained by scraping data off the internet is going to be incompetent, biased, or insane, or more likely all of the above. A system developed for a specific purpose on a controlled data set could be useful, but the systems they are building for general use automatically reflect all the stupidities of our own human nature.

GOUDA - It's what's for dinner

[gavron]

It's kind of funny in a messed up way that people care which cheese is the most [something].
Most consumed? By what measure, weight? Volume? Number of consumers? Cost?

And before you say "Meh" let me just say "Meh."

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[shanen]

But, but, but it must have been true!

I read it in the cesspool formerly known as Twitter!

Send me no Twitter links. I left and such links just invite me back into the cesspool and I ain't goin' back. No surprise the google is still swimming there. Some kind of professional courtesy among sharks?

Gouda here with this AI horseshit

[50000BTU_barbecue]

This ad couldn't have been written by a staffer by checking a local cheese council?

Google doesn't like humans

[ebunga]

See, humans make mistakes, while the computer is perfect. It makes no mistakes. Only those idiot humans make mistakes. Let's fire more humans and replace them with computers, and then cancel the product because only humans need products, unlike perfect Google computer.

Missed opportunity

[The Grim Reefer]

Too bad they didn't take the opportunity to pronounce it correctly. It's actually pronounced "How-duh" not "Goo-duh"

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[bill_mcgonigle]

2025: It's How-duh Google Time!

AI enshittification

[battingly]

Google search results are becoming increasingly dominated by AI-generated pages which are full of mistakes. Those pages today are the basis for tomorrow's AI models. "Grounded in nonsense" is still nonsense, and truth is fast becoming a quaint and obsolete notion.

Wait, I know this one!

[TrancePhreak]

Lies, damned lies, and statistics!

"Grounded in the Web"

[Chris Mattern]

Did you know that when you move your mouth, strange sounds come out?