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,

Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.

Google, the company once known for including “Don’t be evil” in its code of conduct, just changed its corporate rules to allow the development of artificial intelligence for weaponry. The Mountain View tech giant updated its AI Principles webpage between January 30 and Feb.

After Google scrubbed wording that promised not to use AI for weapons, some staffers slammed the decision in the company's internal message board.