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Google Trims Jobs in Trust and Safety While Others Work ‘Around the Clock’

The layoffs, part of a broader staff reduction, come amid backlash over AI chatbot Gemini

Alphabet Inc.’ s Google is laying off a handful of employees on its trust and safety team as part of broader staff cuts, even as it’s asking members of that group to be on standby over the weekend in order to troubleshoot problematic outputs related to its flagship generative AI tool, Gemini. The cuts in the trust and safety solutions group were confirmed by people with knowledge of the decision who asked not to be identified because Google isn’t publicly disclosing details. Google’s various trust and safety teams are tasked with setting up guardrails on its AI products, trying to predict how bad actors could manipulate the tools and conducting risk evaluations to ensure the tools are safe for Google’s global user base.

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