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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, Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
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