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Business Insider
28-04-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Google Cloud executive and former ads boss Jerry Dischler says he will depart the company
Jerry Dischler, a Google veteran who spent several years steering the company's crucial advertising business, plans to depart Google. Dischler, who has been at Google for almost 20 years, announced his departure in a memo to staff on Monday, which was seen by Business Insider. A Google spokesperson confirmed the departure. Dischler was most recently president of cloud applications, overseeing Google's Workspace office software product and integrating AI tools into customers' businesses. He joined Google in 2005 and worked on technology that eventually became Google Pay. He later ran Google's entire ads operations. "The most difficult aspect of my decision was stepping away from the incredible opportunity we have before us," he wrote in the email, adding that he did so with "immense confidence" in the teams. Dischler's exit marks another notable departure for the teams working on Google Workspace, a critical product for Google in generative AI that competes with Microsoft's productivity tools. Aparna Pappu, former vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, announced late last year she would step down and hand over the reins to Dischler. In his departing note, Dischler wrote that senior managers on Workspace will report to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, effective May 9, until a new leader is named. Dischler wrote that it was time for him "to explore something new," although he did not say if he was leaving for a new opportunity.
Campaign ME
11-03-2025
- Business
- Campaign ME
The Spin: the ‘Gouda news', the ‘Bada news' and the worse
The Super Bowl is a gift that keeps on giving. While The Spin looks forward to the blitz of advertisements and the annual 'superb owl' spike in Google Trends, a few of us keep an eye out for the inevitable gift of gaffes. This year, The Spin spotted a Google Super Bowl commercial for its Gemini AI tool, which included an inaccurate statistic about Gouda cheese – that it accounts 'for 50 to 60 per cent of the world's cheese consumption'. While Google recreated the ad to fix the fact, and reposted the corrected ad, it wasn't fast enough to stop the social media storm around it. Many content creators called it out as a hallucination, but Google's President of Cloud Applications Jerry Dischler was quick to point out that it wasn't a made-up stat – just a factually incorrect one commonly cited on the web. In Dischler's words, 'Gouda news: many love this cheese! Bada news: not everyone thinks it's as grate.' The jury's still out on whether AI ought to know better. Speaking of inaccurate statistics and hallucinations, looks like humans are as culpable as AI (if not more). The Spin found a convoluted write-up following Indian utility giant Reliance Power's earnings release for the October-December quarter of the 2024-25 financial year. An article published by Times Now reported inaccurate net profit figures not once, but twice – comically enough – mixing up even the notations belonging to two different numbering systems in the process. Between the headline, sub-headline and the introductory paragraph, the net profit was reported as 'Rs 419.5 crore', 'Rs 419.5 million' and 'Rs 41.95 crore'. Go figure. Another major topic of discussion in early 2025 has been the ubiquitous rollback of DEI across US governmental entities and the military, following US President Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office. During Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, Republican lawmakers – and their retinues – were so focused on their agenda of taking DEI out of the military that they inadvertently, and quite literally, took the 'I' out of 'MILITARY'. An Associated Press photographer immortalised the blunder on the printed board behind Republican Senator Eric Schmitt and Republican Senator Ted Budd, which read, 'DEI in our Miltary.' The Spin also received a fun submission from the Indian city of Bengaluru, where the road signs in the local language of Kannada are spelt correctly in the local script, but unfortunately lack consistency when translated to English. For those visiting the city and unfamiliar with the lay of the land, it makes a convincing argument that this could well be directions to two different places that sound similar – which The Spin has confirmed it's not. Also arriving in The Spin's inbox this month, we've got a fire extinguisher that looks more like a flamethrower, models unwittingly wearing their watches upside down, and an AI-generated creative for eBay that has a hand that doesn't fit well in an ad that claims the 'perfect fit'.
CNN
06-02-2025
- Business
- CNN
Google's AI-generated Super Bowl cheese ad has some holes
One of Google's Super Bowl ads features a Wisconsin cheese market owner who uses the company's Gemini AI tool to write product descriptions. But cheese fans quickly caught a hole in a previous version last week. The AI-generated copy in the commercial claimed that Gouda accounts 'for 50 to 60 percent of the world's consumption.' An X user quickly pointed out that that's incorrect. ('Cheddar & mozzarella would like a word,' the user added.) Though widely used since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI still is prone to churning out inaccurate and oftentimes wacky results. Google's AI-generated search results came under fire when it provided misleading information, such as falsely claiming that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Other users pointed out last year the tool recommended adding glue on pizza to help the cheese stick. Google is in the middle of a push to incorporate its Gemini AI technology across its suite of products in a race to keep up with its US AI competitors OpenAI and Meta, as well as new competitors in China. On X, Google Cloud executive Jerry Dischler said that the gaffe wasn't a hallucination – which is when an AI model produces inaccurate or misleading results. Rather, he said 'multiple sites across the web include the 50-60% stat.' In a statement, Google said it had updated the commercial. The statistic is erased from the commercial currently uploaded on Google-owned YouTube. 'After the question came up about the Gouda stat, we spoke with the owner of the Wisconsin Cheese Mart to ask him how he would handle. Following his suggestion to have Gemini rewrite the product description without the stat, we updated the UI to reflect what the business would do,' a Google spokesperson said Thursday. When Googling 'gouda cheese consumption,' the first result that comes up is the 50-60% statistic from a site called However, it's hard to find another website that uses that number, and the statistic has long been debated on the internet. The Wisconsin ad was part of a series of 50 commercials from 50 different states' small businesses that show how they use Google Workspace with Gemini. CNN's Clare Duffy contributed to this report.
CNN
06-02-2025
- Business
- CNN
Google's AI-generated Super Bowl cheese ad has some holes
One of Google's Super Bowl ads features a Wisconsin cheese market owner who uses the company's Gemini AI tool to write product descriptions. But cheese fans quickly caught a hole in a previous version last week. The AI-generated copy in the commercial claimed that Gouda accounts 'for 50 to 60 percent of the world's consumption.' An X user quickly pointed out that that's incorrect. ('Cheddar & mozzarella would like a word,' the user added.) Though widely used since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI still is prone to churning out inaccurate and oftentimes wacky results. Google's AI-generated search results came under fire when it provided misleading information, such as falsely claiming that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Other users pointed out last year the tool recommended adding glue on pizza to help the cheese stick. Google is in the middle of a push to incorporate its Gemini AI technology across its suite of products in a race to keep up with its US AI competitors OpenAI and Meta, as well as new competitors in China. On X, Google Cloud executive Jerry Dischler said that the gaffe wasn't a hallucination – which is when an AI model produces inaccurate or misleading results. Rather, he said 'multiple sites across the web include the 50-60% stat.' In a statement, Google said it had updated the commercial. The statistic is erased from the commercial currently uploaded on Google-owned YouTube. 'After the question came up about the Gouda stat, we spoke with the owner of the Wisconsin Cheese Mart to ask him how he would handle. Following his suggestion to have Gemini rewrite the product description without the stat, we updated the UI to reflect what the business would do,' a Google spokesperson said Thursday. When Googling 'gouda cheese consumption,' the first result that comes up is the 50-60% statistic from a site called However, it's hard to find another website that uses that number, and the statistic has long been debated on the internet. The Wisconsin ad was part of a series of 50 commercials from 50 different states' small businesses that show how they use Google Workspace with Gemini. CNN's Clare Duffy contributed to this report.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Google's AI-generated Super Bowl cheese ad has some holes
One of Google's Super Bowl ads features a Wisconsin cheese market owner who uses the company's Gemini AI tool to write product descriptions. But cheese fans quickly caught a hole in a previous version last week. The AI-generated copy in the commercial claimed that Gouda accounts 'for 50 to 60 percent of the world's consumption.' An X user quickly pointed out that that's incorrect. ('Cheddar & mozzarella would like a word,' the user added.) Though widely used since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI still is prone to churning out inaccurate and oftentimes wacky results. Google's AI-generated search results came under fire when it provided misleading information, such as falsely claiming that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Other users pointed out last year the tool recommended adding glue on pizza to help the cheese stick. Google is in the middle of a push to incorporate its Gemini AI technology across its suite of products in a race to keep up with its US AI competitors OpenAI and Meta, as well as new competitors in China. On X, Google Cloud executive Jerry Dischler said that the gaffe wasn't a hallucination – which is when an AI model produces inaccurate or misleading results. Rather, he said 'multiple sites across the web include the 50-60% stat.' In a statement, Google said it had updated the commercial. The statistic is erased from the commercial currently uploaded on Google-owned YouTube. 'After the question came up about the Gouda stat, we spoke with the owner of the Wisconsin Cheese Mart to ask him how he would handle. Following his suggestion to have Gemini rewrite the product description without the stat, we updated the UI to reflect what the business would do,' a Google spokesperson said Thursday. When Googling 'gouda cheese consumption,' the first result that comes up is the 50-60% statistic from a site called However, it's hard to find another website that uses that number, and the statistic has long been debated on the internet. The Wisconsin ad was part of a series of 50 commercials from 50 different states' small businesses that show how they use Google Workspace with Gemini. CNN's Clare Duffy contributed to this report.
