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Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

ekianjo wrote: post #21
pjmlp wrote: post #4

It is all almost making richer even more richer, instead of properly hiring people for HR, AI bots. Instead of having more people at the supermarket, have the customers work as if they were employees, the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse when missing on the shelves, but still pay the same or more. Instead of paying to artists, do job ads using generated AI images with code magically showing off mon…

on one hand people complain about sweatshops but on the other hand when the repetitive, soul crushing, low paid job is replaced by technology people complain as well. you can't have it both ways.

we don't want it either way.

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Post by gambiting »

"“The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune"

Maybe Mr Jackson needs to confront the truth that when he looks back on his life in few decades time he realizes that he made the world a worse place for everyone.

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Post by gchamonlive »

9rx wrote: post #127
gchamonlive wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure if AI could make small communities autonomous and provide everyone with everything they would ever need, there would be no need for money. But we are far away from this utopia, this utopia will require a ton of energy to be produced just to run the AI supervision layer, so hopefully by then we'd have fusion energy or something else figures out, and to achieve this utopia there will be a transition period. I am a…

> and provide everyone with everything they would ever need It doesn't need to provide for everyone. Imagine a single Jeff Bezos type who conquers the world with the magical AI with no need for anyone else to do anything for him. With no need for someone else to do something for him, there is no need for him to sell to anyone else. This is where the "they forget people also need money to buy their goods" falls apart.…

You just forget that the transaction part of consuming is just a portion of it. AI could provide bezos with everything material he'd need, just not the power and status. That's where your argument falls apart. We are social beings, and for those in power they won't be satisfied with the illusion of power. Consumption is the driving force that maintains power in capitalism. You could replace the system, but never the need for power humans have.

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Post by withinboredom »

throwawayoldie wrote: post #212
the__alchemist wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is some I've thought about more lately. It's taboo to use the word "lie" and accuse people of lying... I am attempting to use it in my vocabulary more and more, when appropriate. Which is surprisingly often.

I've noticed the word "bullshit" is making a big comeback, which is encouraging to me. Because, good Lord, is there ever so much bullshit.

You may be interested in https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

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Post by tines »

bthrn wrote: post #125

It's funny how employers try to rationalize this -- take Coinbase, for example: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/how-coinbase-is-embracing-ai-i... > While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite. Deploying AI will enable more quality interactions, more quickly for the candidates who are the best fit for our jobs– without unnecessary administrative tasks or distractions. We fully believe…

Are these interviews over video? If so, I guarantee we’ll see reports of AI rating nonwhite candidates lower, and nobody will do anything about it because nobody will care.

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Post by erikerikson »

Garlef wrote: post #5

Maybe we can get a counter-AI that does the AI interview for us?

I mean... If many agents would truly effectively understand each candidate and each role to much more effectively match people to appropriate, desirable roles, that could be awesome. Not holding out but possible.

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Post by [deleted] »

kevinventullo wrote: post #247
9rx wrote: post #150

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> Your landlord demands money every month. As if the "AI champion" will have a landlord. Methinks you've not thought this through. > So do your local utilities - power, gas, water, sewage, garbage collection, phone, internet, etc. Unless he owns all that too. Even if that doesn't play out, safe to say that in said hypothetical future it will be owned by a very small group of people. And while they may still have some…

From their view, if there is no need to extract work from the average Joe, there is no need for the average Joe at all.

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Post by jodrellblank »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #175
throwawayoldie wrote: post #165

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It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.

Unless it's a government job, the interviewers don't have guns. They just have money. Nobody said I have to talk to them.

> "Nobody said I have to talk to them."

You don't need money? NEED money, like your life depends on money to keep surviving? 'cos most people do and don't have your luxurious options.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by 9rx »

kevinventullo wrote: post #247
9rx wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Your landlord demands money every month. As if the "AI champion" will have a landlord. Methinks you've not thought this through. > So do your local utilities - power, gas, water, sewage, garbage collection, phone, internet, etc. Unless he owns all that too. Even if that doesn't play out, safe to say that in said hypothetical future it will be owned by a very small group of people. And while they may still have some…

From their view, if there is no need to extract work from the average Joe, there is no need for the average Joe at all.

Hence why the previously stated remembrance doesn't hold.

As before, money only matters in a world where: You want/need people to do things for you, they won't do something for you without a favour returned in kind, and you cannot immediately return the favour.

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