Google modified its Super Bowl commercial celebrating its Gemini AI after users flagged an incorrect statistic regarding gouda cheese consumption. In the ad, a Wisconsin Cheese Mart owner claimed that gouda accounts for 50-60% of global cheese consumption. This dubious claim, originally from a Reddit post, was defended by Google’s president, but further scrutiny revealed a lack of reliable data. Following the backlash, the Cheese Mart changed its website, and Google updated its commercial, placing responsibility for the error on the business owner.
After the question came up about the Gouda stat, we spoke with the owner of the Wisconsin Cheese Mart to ask him how he would handle it, indicating that the responsibility for the inaccurate information was deferred to the business owner.
Google's president of cloud applications defended the controversial '50% to 60%' cheese consumption statistic by stating that 'multiple sites across the web include the 50-60% stat,' despite its unclear origin.
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