{"id":15196874,"date":"2026-07-05T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/infuriating-google-commercial-imagines-the-founding-fathers-embracing-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:33:41","slug":"infuriating-google-commercial-imagines-the-founding-fathers-embracing-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/infuriating-google-commercial-imagines-the-founding-fathers-embracing-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The founding fathers having a conference call with all of their cameras off via Google Meet, as if they wouldn\u2019t be a bunch of stodgy Microsoft Teams users.\" data-caption=\"I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Google\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/Q3RjZY-rSsc-HD.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tI call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Group project, but make it 1776.&#8221; That&#8217;s how a new commercial for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q3RjZY-rSsc&amp;t=65s\">Google Workspace<\/a> opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google&#8217;s collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini finds them a meeting time, takes notes during a Google Meet call, and then Nano Banana whips up a seal for the United States featuring a turkey ( \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/961468\/google-ai-commercial-founding-fathers-declaration-of-independence\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/961468\/google-ai-commercial-founding-fathers-declaration-of-independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TECH &#8211; AI &#8211; The Verge AI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Group project, but make it 1776.&#8221; That&#8217;s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. 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