Technology giant Google is facing controversy for using pre-recorded videos during the demonstration of its new artificial intelligence tool, Gemini, during the technology’s announcement.
Watchers pointed out that the launch video seemed to imply that users could have seamless conversations with Gemini while engaging with the service, though the apparent smoothness now appears to be a matter of editing.
Following the adverse reaction to its video, Google confirmed to Bloomberg that the stream used during the event was not in fact a real-time demonstration.
“The video is an illustrative depiction of the possibilities of interacting with Gemini, based on real multimodal prompts and outputs from testing,” Google said in a statement. “We look forward to seeing what people create when access to Gemini Pro opens on December 13.”
