Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media

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Google asked 404 Media to revise a statement after publication, removing language affirming that 'it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop' — a notable shift in framing around AI oversight. The original story covered Google employees internally sharing memes about the quality of Google's AI.

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# A quote from Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/4/a-slightly-different-version/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/4/a-slightly-different-version/) 4th June 2026 > 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 Posted[4th June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/4/)at 4:38 pm ## Recent articles - [Claude Opus 4\.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/28/claude-opus-4-8/)\- 28th May 2026 - [I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product\-market fit](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/)\- 27th May 2026 - [Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/)\- 25th May 2026 This is a**quotation**collected by Simon Willison, posted on[4th June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/4/)\. [google410](https://simonwillison.net/tags/google/)[journalism50](https://simonwillison.net/tags/journalism/)[ai2,053](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[ai\-ethics310](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics/)

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