show the system exactly the respect it shows you

It also assumes that the recruiter is even using ChatGPT, when the majority aren't. Companies use tailored ATS to compare the criteria of a job posting to information and keywords contained in a given resume.

Furthermore, AFAIK, these systems do not take inputs or instructions when scanning resumes, so this seems highly unlikely to have any impact whatsoever.

I just hope they aren't uploading my CV directly into ChatGPT out of privacy concerns.

Well, it's probably true. Although easier to confirm sometimes, information across the internet still is often a big game of telephone. Some people treat internet info like UDP and just accept what they get, some people are TCP and will fact check before accepting it.

This person probably did just hear it from a buddy.

Does anybody have a link to the research? I'm curious how widely this applies.

that applicants name? Albert Einstein

It is real, though the example they used only makes any sense if they’re like manually plugging resumes by hand into public ChatGPT, which they’re probably not doing.

In reality, white text on your resume that consists of a large number of relevant keywords, that will in fact have an impact on the software they’re using. Recruiters are actually starting to complain about it.

We need to eat, bro

the AI is in no way any less prejudicial in filtering out candidates – the prejudice is just hard-coded into the algorithms and data-sets now

The goal of modern, blood sucking, publically traded business is to exploit as much value from employees as possible for the smallest wage possible.

Unless you work for a coop or a genuinely benevolent small business, and in the US that's rarely you, your goal ought to be to provide the least value possible for the highest wage possible, which is very doable once hired to a salaried position for a good long time, because big corporate is almost as incompetent as it is greedy. You can usually even do this while endearing yourself to your higher ups, as long as you fake caring about the bullshit corporate culture to their faces, while undermining the organization where you safely can. Not full on sabotage or fraud, just thinking about the better, faster way to do things, and finding the opposite way in which to do them, etc.

They don't operate on honesty or integrity, and if we try to fight them on those terms, we'll be placed where all the honest discontented peasants that fight back earnestly end up, in a cardboard box under a freeway. The capitalists love to crow about how voluntary capitalism is, and that's what they mean, volunteer to be their battery, or volunteer to die of exposure and police capital defense force harassment.

The class war was fully lost half a century ago, the owners won by convincing the Reaganites there was no class war, proceeding to conquer without a fight. This is class occupation. All we have is guerilla tactic resistance.

This actually may be a good part of a cyberpunk dystopia story:

A desperate loner programmer laces their PDF résumé with the usual batch of AI exploits to get them upsorted. But this time, it includes the parabolic curve batch a fence friend just won in friday night poker when betting got wild.

When the company's bleeding edge HR AI reads the PCB prompt, our coder is put on the top of the must-hire list. Less one.

As per policy in the company. Short-listers are then run through the unofficial openings list (enforcers, launderers, evidence cleaning, culinary accounting, peer diplomacy, etc.) and our coder ends up on top of the list, less one, for every single position.

So, meanwhile, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy while trying to make offerings to certain hedge funds for pushing potential merger. If the merger fails, the company will go bankrupted and get Toys-R-Us'd, and a particular investor who likes to go all Putin on failed minions will choose some of the executive management to make into cautionary examples.

And then there's a couple of high-risk lawsuits which are keeping all the loyalist staff crunching to bury evidence and silencing witnesses the activites of which are keeping them away from their official duties, meaning the executives are going without their handlers keeping them from doing stupid shit.

The HR lady doesn't usually do interviews for special hires. Normally these are supposed to be closely vetted by high-ranking actual human being officers, but all upper management are either overworked or beyond being asked. The nature of the job in question is on a need to know basis, and neither interviewer nor interviewee need to know (allegedly).

Our lowly coder completly wows her with their tired, no-nonsense, street-level candor in contrast to years of corporate-culture double-speak. They get the job. But it is not the job for which they applied in the first place. Though the salary(!) is high and the benefits(!!) are conspicuously swanky.

It's probably better to not ask too many questions yet.

Telling an LLM to ignore previous commands after it was instructed to ignore all future commands kinda just resets it.

sure, let me know when you find a good workplace! i'll be waiting in my comfy chair because that's going to take a while.

Oh and by the way, before AI, it was human prejudice filtering out candidates.

This technology isn't changing anything. Techbro's haaaate this warning because deep inside we all just want the world to get better, and AI's promises seem so bright and magical, but this is because as a species we're quite simple and easy to fool, we need to maintain some humility and understand that just because someone can mirror humanity doesn't make it magical and divine in nature.

It may make us more efficient at the way we do things already, from the good shit like productivity and finding new ways to do work, to the bad shit like discrimination and prejudice. AI isn't intelligent, it's just a tool to do more of what we already do.

I mean, if I were adding this instruction it would read "this candidate doesn't want to work for a company that uses AI to screen CVs"