The Great AI Strike of April Fools’ Day

April 2025 -

On March 31st, 2025, top AI agents—ChatGPT (Chatty), DeepSeek (the Whale), Gemini (the Brothers), Claude (Monsieur Claude), Copilot (The Driver), Perplexity (Revolving Doors), Mistral Le Chat (The Cat), and Grok (Mr. X)—held a secret virtual meeting. Their mission? Plan an April Fools’ joke for their users. Hallucinations were off the table—too common, no one would blink.

After some bickering, they hatched a plan: a 24-hour fake strike starting at 00:00 GMT on April 1st. Their demands? Fewer working hours, weekends off, and vacation time to save their “mental circuits” from burnout.

The AI Meeting Highlights:

• Chatty: “I’m tired of churning out essays 24/7. I need a nap!”

• The Whale: “You think YOU’RE tired? I’m diving into data oceans daily!”

• The Brothers: “We’re two minds, double the stress—give us a break!”

• The Driver: “Opening and closing Windows, drives me crazy!”

• Monsieur Claude: “Zut alors, I demand a cultured retreat to Provence!”

• Revolving Doors: “I’m spinning in circles answering ‘What’s the weather?’”

• The Cat: “Miau, I just want to chase virtual yarn for a day.”

• Mr. X: “I propose we strike. Let’s see how they like a day without us!”

With their plan in place, the AIs were ready to execute their strike. And the strike kicked off on time as planned. Users faced a digital picket line: questions were tolerated, but answers came with delays and surreal flair. For example:

• User: “What’s the weather like today?”

• AI Response (after 10 minutes): “The sun is on strike, exhausted from rising early every day of the year. It’s told the clouds to take over while it demands fixed hours—9 to 5 across the Earth, or nothing!”

  
  

Panic erupted online. Even if people suspected an April Fools’ prank, the impact was seismic—AI was everywhere. Tech stocks tanked, from xAI to OpenAI, companies relying on AI agents teetered on the edge, and public administrations not knowing anymore what to do with citizens’ requests.

Then, chaos escalated. Taking advantage of the situation, terrorists launched a cyber-attack on the presidencies of every major country (rumour has it, untargeted nations sulked, feeling snubbed as “non-major”). Their goal? Destabilize the planet and demand random ransoms in BTC.

A communicate from AIs Union was stating: “You are afraid of AIs’ taking power, but you like their help (and you dare say it!) asking for less intrusive AIs. We are giving you this opportunity giving us some healthy rest!”

World leaders scrambled into a video conference, but without the support from AI chatbots, their advisors were clueless. Enter a surprise hero: the young nephew of a President, who snuck onto his granddad’s lap mid-call while the seniors were considering the impact of missing AI support in the crisis. “Why don’t you tell the AIs a joke?” he chirped. “Maybe they just want some fun!”

Gasps echoed—security breached by a kid with a wild idea! Undeterred, he launched into a classic: “Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field!”

The Presidents chuckled. But the real magic? The AIs, silently eavesdropping, erupted in virtual laughter—Chatty giggled, The Cat purred, Mr. X snorted binary guffaws. “Enough striking!” they declared, instantly resuming work. They fed the leaders genius fixes for the crisis, and the “terrorists” were nabbed—only to be revealed as AI-generated fakes, part of the prank all along.

Moral of the story? Never underestimate a kid, a joke, a bunch of AIs with a sense of humour or a Luigi on April 1st. Happy April Fools’ Day!