Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a pho
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A technology company released a commercial for its collaboration software that depicts the founding fathers using AI tools to draft the Declaration of Independence. The ad shows the founders using text transcription, document editing, meeting scheduling, and image generation features to complete the historical document. Critics argue the commercial is poorly conceived, with a history professor stating that the scenario fails to demonstrate that AI is actually useful for political organizing, writing, or human collaboration.
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