The institutional problem is attribution. Companies can claim AI efficiency without proving that a specific model replaced a specific worker, and that looseness benefits management. The April 15 Bluesky exchange shows why the public argument has moved from automation capacity to executive motive: one user asked whether the economy is being underdescribed while AI absorbs blame [3], and another warned that an industry advertising itself as a job-loss engine has invited regulation . The legal and policy fight now starts at the press release, where a staffing decision becomes an…