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Google's Super Bowl ad about a Gouda cheese seller appears to be using fake AI output, writes the Verge:
The text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business's website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived webpage. Google didn't launch Gemini until 2023, meaning Gemini couldn't have generated the website description as depicted in the ad.
The site Futurism calls the situation "beyond bizarre," asking why Google doesn't seem to trust its own technology.
Either Google fa
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