AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 17:09
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jordanlund@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 17:39 next collapse

The hand in front of face thing is interesting, and in the video you can see clear distortion around the headphones which could have been a result of a replacement background.

I’d have requested they turn off all filters and see how they react to that. “Oh, I’m not running any filters.” would be a clear lie and a reason to end the interview.

thefartographer@lemm.ee on 21 Mar 18:40 collapse

“Can you tell me why your face has higher fidelity than the rest of your body?”

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 18:57 collapse

When I’m on camera, I never do a background replacement and I’m always in front of bookshelves. Anyone can ask “What’s that thing behind you?” and I’ll take it down and show them.

adespoton@lemmy.ca on 21 Mar 20:13 next collapse

Unfortunately, that “ask cultural questions” advice is out of date.

Copilot can provide the appropriate answer in less than a second. So unless you ask them to answer the cultural questions while holding their hand over their eyes, they can just have a microphone on listening to the interviewer’s questions and providing appropriate responses to the imposter’s screen.

tal@lemmy.today on 22 Mar 02:28 next collapse

Vidoc posted on local job boards, like the one in Poland. But whoever was behind this operation figured out that it’s profitable to pose as Serbian, Polish, and other eastern European profiles

I’d think that this could be pretty easily resolved by just having a real-life interview, at least for the final interview.

It sounds like Vidoc is in Poland. Maybe it’s just me, but if I were being hired for an engineering position, I’d think that it’d be reasonable to be willing to travel to a final interview, and for the company to cover any costs.

But, okay, say that it doesn’t make sense. Maybe the finances don’t work, maybe they want to hire from somewhere where it’s not practical for people to travel to their location. I’d think that it’d be possible to have an “interviewing company”. That company just obtains some office space, sets up videoconference conferencing rooms, and has their own trusted cameras and suchlike present.

Llewellyn@lemm.ee on 22 Mar 04:04 collapse

The case is too niche.

muhyb@programming.dev on 22 Mar 04:37 next collapse

Can’t have the syndrome if you are a real impostor.

Evotech@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 07:17 next collapse

Put shoe on head to verify

nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de on 22 Mar 07:47 next collapse

I’m not active on linked in, but 0 posts and 3500 followers rose my suspicions

Chip_Rat@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 14:27 collapse

To what end? I read most of the article but I can’t understand the goals of these fakers?