I wanted to hate it so bad, but I think it's a harmless idea that maybe gives the author a 5% advantage in future job searches. Why not?
Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
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Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
#22I'm sure some folks will see this as dishonest or unethical, but it feels more like the natural evolution of getting spammed by recruiters. If recruiters are going to endlessly spam me with their templates and automation, it only seems fair that my response is also templates and automation.
tinder already allows you to fabricate entire dialogue with preloaded responses last I checked.
at this point I might as well generate mtiple dopplegangers seeded by various movie monologues and see what happens.
I bet my 007 doppleganger is hawt
Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
#23I explicitly list on my LinkedIn that I'm not interested in "web3" but that doesn't stop the messages. This has me thinking of fun ways to waste a few minutes of these recruiters' time in return for wasting a few (many?) minutes of mine...
If you have "not interested in web3", then your profile comes up in keyword searches for web3.
It would naively seem to me that reading profiles is literally the bare minimum to do the job. If a recruiter can't do more than scrape LinkedIn for keyword matches and send spam, I can't think of a good reason why I should respect their time.
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#24I felt like this blog post ended quite abruptly. I was expecting for the author to show how GPT-3 was able to formulate a response back to the recruiter not just parse out the name and company of the recruiter.
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#25"ASK HN: My GPT-3 spam responder got hired for a job at Infosys. Now what?"
Show HN: I am earning 3 lakhs INR per annum side income with GPT3.
Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
#26Someday, the recruiters will also start using GPT-3, and all recruitment conversations will just be transmissions between different GPT-3 instances, creating a massive hive mind of GPT-3s that brings about the singularity.
What makes you think this isn't already happening?
I would expect GPT-3 to do a much better job of making me think they've actually looked at my profile. Most recruiter emails are very clearly the result of a keyword search plus mail merge to insert my name (and sometimes my current employer's name), while GPT-3 would presumably be used to write something more personalized.
Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
#27I'm sure some folks will see this as dishonest or unethical, but it feels more like the natural evolution of getting spammed by recruiters. If recruiters are going to endlessly spam me with their templates and automation, it only seems fair that my response is also templates and automation.
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Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
#28Someday, the recruiters will also start using GPT-3, and all recruitment conversations will just be transmissions between different GPT-3 instances, creating a massive hive mind of GPT-3s that brings about the singularity.
What makes you think this isn't already happening?
9 of 10 recruiter emails I get have 3 or 4 paragraphs leaving me none the wiser about the company, the product, the role, or why they thought I'd be interested. At most I get a vague idea of the sector. I hate to say it, but the only ones that aren't always rancid corpspeak are the ones I get from big tech. I expect GPT-3 to set a slightly higher bar. At least GPT-3 fools me once in a while. Recruiters never fool me into thinking they contact people with care.
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#30This makes a lot more sense than having GPT-3 actually write responses, which is what I thought this was going to be. Not nearly as much fun though! (But in seriousness, using GPT-3 for parsing to extract info is a neat use case I wasn’t aware of).
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