Google ‘edits’ Super Bowl ad with wrong cheese statistic: What has changed

has corrected an error made by its Gemini AI assistant in a Super Bowl commercial after it provided an incorrect statistic about Gouda cheese. The factual error in the commercial prompted Google Cloud apps president Jerry Dischler to defend Gemini AI’s accuracy.
A Google spokesperson told The Verge that the company consulted with the business owner featured in the ad, who had initially used Gemini's response on their website. Following the owner's suggestion, Google updated the ad to reflect how the business would handle the situation by removing the inaccurate statistic.

The original ad showed a small business owner using Gemini to write website copy, with the AI claiming Gouda accounts for "50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption." This inaccurate claim has since been removed from the commercial.
The updated version of the ad, now available on YouTube, omits the specific statistic and simply states that Gouda is “one of the most popular cheeses in the world.”
The change comes after Google Cloud apps president Jerry Dischler initially defended the AI’s response on X, claiming it was "grounded in the Web" and not a "hallucination."
However, Andrew Novakovic, a professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University, confirmed to The Verge that Gouda is far from being the most consumed cheese globally. It appears Gemini sourced the incorrect information from Cheese.com, a website known for its SEO-driven content, the report added.
An X user later questioned Dischler’s defense saying, “If it wasn't wrong, why did Google remove the stat from the video on youtube?”

Google is scrubbing Gemini's AI hallucination from its Super Bowl ad
This after Google Cloud President @jdischler said it was *not* a hallucination
Which is it, Jerry?