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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

It should make Americans of every political stripe want to hurl their devices against a wall.

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A recent Google commercial has sparked controversy by depicting the founding fathers embracing artificial intelligence to draft the Declaration of Independence. The commercial, which promotes Google Workspace and Gemini, imagines a scenario where the founding fathers use these tools to collaborate on the historic document. The portrayal has been met with criticism, with some finding it to be an insensitive and inaccurate representation of the founding fathers' historical context.

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