Google unlists misleading Gemini video

Google has unlisted an awesome Gemini demo video it posted past December that seemed remarkably conversational. The BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD), an advertisement manufacture watchdog, inquired whether the video “accurately depicts the show of Gemini successful responding to idiosyncratic dependable and video prompts.”

Google chose to extremity the enquiry by ending its promotion of the video that showed Gemini rapidly responding to assorted spoken prompts, specified arsenic identifying parts of drawings and creating a geography crippled connected the fly.

Buried successful the statement was a disclaimer indicating the demo mightiness not beryllium arsenic bully arsenic it seemed: “For the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs person been shortened for brevity.”

Another enactment adjacent the opening of the video said, “Sequences shortened throughout.” And Google DeepMind’s Oriol Vinyals clarified that the video illustrated what “the multimodal idiosyncratic experiences built with Gemini could look like.”

Google’s effect to the enquiry includes unlisting the video and keeping up a related blog post astir however it was made.

Google didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. The NAD’s property merchandise includes a Google connection that says it’s “pleased to judge NAD’s solution of this matter.”