A one-line AI joke turns "this never happened" into a comment on hiring
taherdhanera · x · 2026-07-26
A short AI joke: "Every film begins with a lie: this never happened. AI simply stopped hiring people to prove it."
It plays on the idea that AI has made the old excuse of "nothing happened" feel like a labor-market strategy.
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