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Google fumbles Gemini Super Bowl ad's cheese statistic

Online refs throw a flag on gouda's popularity play

Google’s Gemini AI assistant fumbled an ad set to air during the Super Bowl when sharp-eyed viewers spotted a cheesy statistical error. A quick manual web search confirms that aspect, with the Gouda Illuminati apparently spreading the idea across the internet but never sourced to any actual study or census. So it suggests Google used its ownership of YouTube to finesse the new video into the slot of the original, ensuring it maintained the viewing figures and other stats, but without its erroneous gouda assumption.

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