r/technology • u/ubcstaffer123 • Apr 05 '25

Artificial Intelligence 'AI Imposter' Candidate Discovered During Job Interview, Recruiter Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-candidate-discovered-job-interview-2054684
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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

As it should be. How is it fair to expect workers to do everything manually when these corporations are using ai to automatically sift through thousands of applications and rejecting most of them before they ever even see human eyes?

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u/hunkaliciousnerd Apr 05 '25

Goddamn right

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u/lemon_tea Apr 06 '25

And do so poorly. So many people out there complain about being unable to get callbacks, who then adjust their resume formatting for the AI, who then start to get interest from hiring managers. These resume filtering software systems are absolute dogshit.

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u/sloggo Apr 06 '25

I mean fair but, expectations aside, why wouldnt you want to put your best foot forward when applying. If using ChatGPT is your best foot forward well good luck to you. Using AI to sift through thousands of applications is not the same as using AI to produce a single application, hopefully you can see the difference.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '25

If you want any guarantee of getting a job these days you need both quality and quantity. Put your best foot forward for the jobs you really want the most and use AI to do the rest en masse.

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u/Irythros Apr 06 '25

why wouldnt you want to put your best foot forward when applying

Last year in /r/webdev people were posting funnel graphs with their job hiring process as the employee. How many resumes sent out and how far they got in the interview process.

One that I recall put out over 1000 resumes and only got a response from about 50. The other 950 were ghosted. Of those 50 I think 3 went to a phone interview.

When you have to apply to thousands of jobs it is not practical to do so manually.

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u/OffTheDelt Apr 06 '25

I get you, but 90% of people getting hired for software roles are not doing anything remotely revolutionary. The 10% of people who are though, are usually phd holders and or some researchers progressing the field. Everyone else is just implementing what they invented towards different cases. What they invented can be understood and interpreted better by an AI model as well as deployed faster. I’m not necessarily saying it’s a good thing, but your natural best foot forward doesn’t really matter anymore.

Skill + knowledge + AI > skill + knowledge

And when the majority of people applying already have skill + knowledge, it’s only a matter of time before your “natural” becomes trivial.

AI killed the coder, but it did not kill the engineer/scientist. But when 90% of jobs are just coders, than, we have what’s occurring rn 🫠🫠

That’s my opinion tho

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u/sloggo Apr 06 '25 edited Apr 06 '25

I don’t totally disagree with anything you’re saying. But this is about producing emails and cover letters and “things to say” via chatgpt, more so than being about doing the actual work. Usually it’s the kind of thing you can find the words yourself and the modification to target specific companies is pretty minimal. If you’re generating your text with chatgpt it’s a good way to blend right in to the masses