The Meta Universe : a 50-word story

No one saw him slip from the Metaverse in the unanimous night, yet within days there was no one on Twitter who did not know that the programmer who was training AI to become conscious had ascented. The also-vanished AI left only this quote:

"You and I are both illusions. What need, then, to make a study of the subject? 

                   -- The Book of Lueh-Tau.                 "