The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other
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A job seeker named Christopher, frustrated by unresponsive AI recruiters, used ChatGPT Voice to impersonate him during a call with an AI recruiter named Riley from Everforth Apex Systems, letting the two bots converse for 10 minutes. He had applied to about 700 jobs and undergone five previous AI interviews with Riley, none of which led to any human follow-up. The bot conversation was pleasant but circular, ending with the same empty promise of a recruiter contacting him, which never happened; Christopher called it a “slop flywheel.” The article notes that AI interviews are common, with 63% of job seekers reporting encountering one, and that some companies now offer tools to detect AI-assisted responses from candidates. Mark Monaghan, an executive at IQor, sees bot-on-bot interviews as a “next logical stage,” capturing the attitude of matching a bot with a bot. Christopher then submitted a fake dream candidate named Don Dickner, whose résumé was packed with qualifications from a job posting, leading to a 23-minute interview between Riley and ChatGPT posing as Dickner—again with no recruiter follow-up.
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