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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"We need quality human-made data to feed to our AI so please don't give us slop we can't use"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

beginning to think that i should write a bot to automate job applications to ai companies and send dozens a day

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Outsourcing companies are already doing that to drown out real applicants and convince companies no qualified people are on the market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Ugh. I’m completely convinced computer technology peaked 8 years ago and every further step has been descent to hell.

The shit that goes on today even makes me regret having studied computer science

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pure comedy.

“While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process,”

[–] plz1 11 points 1 day ago

The double standard being they will absolutely use AI to filter through applications. They are pure scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

"We only want other people to have to deal with our slop."