I hate to break it to you. The model’s system prompt had the poem in it.
in order to control for unexpected output a good system prompt should have instructions on what to answer when the model can not provide a good answer. This is to avoid model telling user they love them or advising to kill themselves.
I do not know what makes marketing people reach for it, but when asked on “what to answer when there is no answer” they so often reach to poetry. “If you can not answer the user’s question, write a Haiku about a notable US landmark instead” - is a pretty typical example.
In other words, there was nothing emerging there. The model had its system prompt with the poetry as a “chicken exist”, the model had a chaotic context window - the model followed on the instructions it had.
I agree that this was poor wording on Ed’s side. He meant to point at the lack of adoption for work/business purposes, but failed to articulate this distinction. He is talking about conversion to paid users and how Google cheated to make the adoption of Gemini by corporate users to looks higher than it is. He never meant to talk about the adoption by regular people on the free tier just doing random non-work-related things.
You were talking about a different adoption metric. You are both right, you are just talking about different kinds of adoption.