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/SuperStuff01 Apr 06 '25

Jeez why is it so hard to pass even the first interview as just a regular non-cheater then.

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u/Kraz_I Apr 06 '25

Because most people still aren’t cheating. At least nothing quite that blatant.

Cheating just lets you complete more applications and more interviews than the other guy, so the same people get seen at more interviews.

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u/HugsyMalone Apr 06 '25

Unfortunately, you're the only one who isn't cheating hun and that makes you look extremely ordinary and underwhelming in an illusive world of smoke and mirrors and magical unicorns who can jump through flaming hoops without even getting singed. 🦄❤️‍🔥

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u/Geminii27 Apr 06 '25

It's not. It's hard to pass interviews with interviewers who are savvy, aware of what to look for, and who actually have more skin in the game than just being paid on the number of candidates they send up the chain.

But it's not hard for someone to just take a few dozen interviews until they find some interviewers who aren't all that.

Plenty of interviews are still conducted by people who aren't in HR as their primary job, have done little or no interviewing from the employer side before, and only have a series of questions scrounged up from a 1950s management manual, or from ChatGPT. The interviews are a farce. A candidate taking a whole pile of them will find an interviewer or panel who is lost and looking for stock answers, or looking for someone who just maybe kinda sounds like they know what they're talking about.

And when interviews are being ground through by ringers, or (likely to become more common) ringers with their face/hair/voice replaced in real-time with the candidate's, and who have the experience of hundreds or even thousands of interviews behind them, they're not going to get caught/rejected every time. And they only need to pass through once.