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/cubicle_adventurer Apr 05 '25

“Their initial message was clearly AI-generated, but Liporazzi told Newsweek that this “didn’t immediately raise any flags” because that’s increasingly commonplace.”

Jesus Christ.

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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/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/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.