Google Asked 404 Media to Soften a Statement, Quietly Dropping 'Humans in the Loop' Language

404 Media (via Simon Willison)·medium signal

404 Media's Emanuel Maiberg reported (June 4) that after publishing a story on Google employees sharing internal memes about how its AI 'sucks,' Google's spokesperson asked the outlet to publish a revised statement that no longer claimed 'it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop.' Simon Willison highlighted the edit as a telling moment in AI-comms spin. A small but revealing signal about how AI vendors manage the 'human oversight' narrative.