from misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@beehaw.org on 09 Apr 2025 04:58
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(…) Companies have long fought off attacks from hackers hoping to exploit vulnerabilities in their software, employees or vendors. Now, another threat has emerged: Job candidates who aren’t who they say they are, wielding AI tools to fabricate photo IDs, generate employment histories and provide answers during interviews.
The rise of AI-generated profiles means that by 2028 globally 1 in 4 job candidates will be fake, according to research and advisory firm Gartner.
The risk to a company from bringing on a fake job seeker can vary, depending on the person’s intentions. Once hired, the impostor can install malware to demand ransom from a company, or steal its customer data, trade secrets or funds, according to Balasubramaniyan. In many cases, the deceitful employees are simply collecting a salary that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to, he said.
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Jesus fake job postings now I’m competing with fake fucking job candidates.
When will this fucking nightmare end?
As if there weren’t enough reasons for a general strike already.
Def close to a general strike. If they keep crashing the economy.
The 1 in 4 job candidates being fake is so dystopian. Getting hired for a job becomes even more of a hassle.
I made the mistake of touching up my resume using AI and got rejected everywhere. When I finally figured out that maybe I wasn’t getting any interviews because I used AI to make my resume look better (like 100+ applications later), I went back to my self-written resume and found a job in less than a month. Learn from my mistakes and write your own resume or end up on the ‘fake job seeker’ pile.
Ironic that AI proficiency is increasingly being required for the positions in the first place. Red flag if you use AI, and a red flag if you avoid using AI. Catch 22 lol.
And how do companies detect if you have used AI in making your resume? Is it the wording?
They have their software look at all the resumes, and probably filter out the ones it identifies as “ai” . No human will see those resumes that are filtered out.
Plot twist - no human sees any resumes at all these days.
I used LLMs (gpt4.5-preview) to write portions of my resume. But I also used a paid service that uses AI to supposedly scan your resume in the same fashion these HR tools do - and gives recommendations on improving to better get past the filters. I’m early in the process but I’m getting a solid amount of HR interviews scheduled, and a technical interview tomorrow.
My point is, I don’t think using AI in a resume is necessarily a bad thing so long as you go into it with the intention of getting past filters.
It sucks that job searching has devolved to SEO-spam and AI hallucinations but here we are.
Sad to see 4+ ITT agree with your oppressors.
Companies should be hiring and training pro bono, like they did 7 decades ago. If in 3 months they don’t like you, they can fire you, “at-will.”
Ideally, you should be joining a cooperative, guild, and unionize. Let companies consult to you.
Feels like this is where it needs to head. This isn’t material different than going through a recruiting agency except those agency charges +20% of the starting salary.
The idea is the same though. People form relationships with the third party group and the third party group puts their reputation on the line when suggesting candidates.
Looks like a comeback at fake job posts: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2024/08/13/36-of-job-adverts-are-fake-how-to-spot-them-in-2024/
"An eye for an eye"...
“simply collecting a salary they wouldn’t otherwise be able to” yes that’s the basic concept of working for a company, thank you
Personally I think it is cool that capitalists are getting fooled by their own garbage products. Most of these companies produce nothing of real value and contribute nothing but suffering and toil to society.
I get where you’re coming from, but it’s pretty clear they are saying the fake applicants would not actually be doing the work. They are just taking the place of people actually out there looking for jobs and making the job search that much harder. Capitalists aren’t suffering from this as much as workers are suffering from it.
😂 You don’t get “where I’m coming from” and I don’t buy your argument
What do you mean you don’t buy my argument? My argument that it is more detrimental to workers than owners? Then I’m not sure you understand capitalism, because money in workers pockets is inherently more impactful than money in a capitalists bank account. It’s a drop in the ocean for large corporations, but can be the difference between food or housing or healthcare to a worker. The company would be spending that money anyways, so it’s already accounted for. The nominal cost of recruitment is just going to come from a salary at the end of the day. All it does is serve to incentivize companies adding extra hoops to the hiring process and potentially screening out real people or causing extra stress/work to apply. This will not discourage workers from applying, since you know, the threat of capitalism still looms large and worker protections are low and are being dismantled day by day.
If you’re not coming from an anti capitalist place, then you’re right, I don’t get it.