Google has unlisted an impressive Gemini demo video it posted last December that seemed remarkably conversational. BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD), an ad industry watchdog, inquired whether the video “accurately depicts the performance of Gemini in responding to user voice and video prompts.”
Google unlists misleading Gemini video
After BBB National Programs’ ad watchdog questioned an AI demo’s accuracy, Google ‘voluntarily unlisted’ the video.
After BBB National Programs’ ad watchdog questioned an AI demo’s accuracy, Google ‘voluntarily unlisted’ the video.
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Google chose to end the inquiry by ending its promotion of the video that showed Gemini quickly responding to various spoken prompts, such as identifying parts of drawings and creating a geography game on the fly.
Buried in the description was a disclaimer indicating the demo might not be as good as it seemed: “For the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity.”
Another note near the beginning of the video said, “Sequences shortened throughout.” Google DeepMind’s Oriol Vinyals also clarified that the video illustrated what “the multimodal user experiences built with Gemini could look like.”
“Google is pleased to accept NAD’s resolution of this matter,” Google spokesperson Gareth Evans says in a statement to The Verge. “The video is still available in conjunction with the blog post that explains how the demonstration in the video was created.” Here’s that blog post, if you want to read it.
Update, September 12th: Added statement from Google.
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