The AI Super Bowl, with multiple tech giants clamoring to advertise advanced chatbots, already had its first big fumble, after a Google ad provided wildly inaccurate facts. Google plans to air 50 local ads in 50 states,

Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl. The ad shows a business owner using Gemini to write a website description, but 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.

BBC reports that Google had to scramble to fix its big Super Bowl advertising campaign for the company's Gemini AI tool. To show off the capabilities of the tool, Google used the Gemini AI to produce hyper-localized commercials highlighting each of the 50 US states.