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Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media

Google's spokesperson asked 404 Media to publish a revised statement after the outlet's initial report on internal employee memes criticizing the company's AI. The updated statement removed the previous language asserting that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop.

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After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."

— [Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media](https://www.404media.co/google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/), Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

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