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AI is removing human involvement from entry-level hiring by pitting AI-written job applications against AI-written screening filters.

Drawn from what Derek Thompson said

SubjectsLLMshiringAI writing
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hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

AI writing Prose a model wrote: what gives it away, what it does to reading, and whether anyone should publish it.

What Derek Thompson actually said

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  1. Derek Thompson

    Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra…

    Artificial intelligence has unleashed a torrent of cheating on campus and created chaos in the job application process, as both students and employers use large language models: the former, to write hundreds of AI-assisted applications; the latter, to screen those AI-written applications with AI-written filters, thus removing from the process of finding a first job those procedural frictions sometimes known as "people."

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    ↗Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AIderekthompson.org

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