Meme: what it's like when a frontier-lab employee can't say what they work on
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-11
An AI-circle meme rollout involving Persimmon shows a frontier-lab employee being asked what they work on and having to deflect — a joke about lab secrecy culture. The poster notes they're "no longer me after today" and mentions hiring at @humansand.
Related event: Persimmon's New Meme: AI Researchers Can't Say What They Work On(2 posts)→
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