Originally published at: Job-seeking AI will apply to thousands of positions for you - Boing Boing
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The damn software companies profit from creating the problem, then again by creating the “solution,” and in the meantime destroying the entire process for both employers and job seekers. I don’t know how to meaningfully regulate this bullshit but we need to find a way.
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The inevitable arms race seems well underway. AI-powered HR departments demand AI-powered applicants
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i can only imagine it will make relying on existing connections even stronger than it is already. ( ie. nepotism ) those networks tend to reinforce things like gender disparity and racial bias… so another win, i’d say, for capitalism and white supremacy
definitely needs some thinking around laws to unbreak it all
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What I’m hearing is that it would be Wrong to generate a portfolio of fake applicants and use this AI tool to send applications to those businesses listing positions (also, often fake) using AI tools to process them. Yep. Definitely Wrong.
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I don’t see how this can turn out well for job seekers.
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Maybe this stupidity will finally put hiring back in the hands of actual hiring managers.
But the scenario @gatto describes is unfortunately the more likely outcome.
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Well we know that AI HR bots are racist from the last decade and a half of real world examples so of these tools are fine tuning their output on success it won’t be that long before they all produce 14 word personal statements and the like…
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On a recent Factually! podcast the guest pointed out something that I hadn’t considered before. In the past some employers might like your resume and some might not, and applying to more companies would always help your odds of finding a job. But these days if you’ve got a resume that for whatever reason doesn’t make the algorithm happy then all the companies that have HR departments which use this type of algorithm will reject it. Doesn’t matter if you apply to 5 companies or 500, because it’s unlikely that a human being at any of them will ever even see a resume that the algorithm didn’t like. Pretty messed up situation.
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There are so many areas that AI is fucking up right now through human greed, incompetence, faddish devotion to the new thing, and most importantly through out of control hegemonic capital power, that only an idiot, literally, concerns himself about the idea of intelligent AI deliberately doing something terrible. I bet Pascal’s Wager that Roku’s Basilisk is worth ignoring entirely. And everything anyone who is concerned about it says. Ignore it. They’re an idiot.
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The two ends will inevitably be consolidated and monopolized by a small cabal of largest providers who will work to extort maximum shareholder returns from prospective employees and employers. The algorithm will be manipulated to maximise engagement and retention rather than outcome. Like the rental bidding apps, if you disagree you can go live under a bridge.
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Just like winning any bid in online auctions required the use of sniping software, so will getting a job interview eventually require this software.
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i think if you replace the word “basilisk” with “hilter” - it becomes more obvious that the idea is as ignorable as any call to fascism or genocide. and, i’d treat those people the same way i’d treat anyone promoting those kind of ideas.
if your safety isn’t at risk, explain to them why it’s wrong to harm people for some supposed greater good. then if they can’t see that, know that they’re a danger to you and others around you, and act appropriately.
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Seems great if you want to apply to jobs such as “pizza gluer” and “rock eater.” Google AI search tells users to glue pizza and eat rocks
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along that same line today
Timothy Snyder, a scholar of authoritarianism, that power is often freely given to an authoritarian in anticipation of punishment, what Snyder calls “anticipatory obedience.”
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I am surprised that my translation of the German term uses the exact same wording as Snyder, who I was not aware of when I wrote that and who definitely didn’t come up with the concept, since, as outlined, it has existed in German for a long time.
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Obviously the AI “thinks” that the person is a pothead because they choose that birthday.
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