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inerkath's avatar

It would be great if the government could do their job and put in regulations for AI instead of profit from this insanity... if only pig could fly. AI is reality we are now faced with as I am currently on the job market...

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Emma Cardenas's avatar

Wow, this whole experience sounds extremely awkward and like a bad business practice. The bit that really sticks out to me is not having an opt out or 'other' option, especially for those who are neurodivergent or need some accommodation. So NOT the same but what immediately came to mind was: even sweepstakes are required to let people enter via snail mail...

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Kristen Geil's avatar

Whatttt this sounds so fucked

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meghan jean-felix's avatar

This would be such an awkward experience, I don't know if I could maintain a clear thought process in this kind of interview, it would be so distracting. I don't know if hiring teams are accounting for that in regards to candidate interview performance.

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Jordan Harrod's avatar

The timer at the bottom was definitely distracting, especially since you don’t know how many comments you’ll get? So I was constantly hyper-vigilant about whether I was saying too much or too little in real time, which I’d think would skew performance metrics. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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ρE sin(i)'s avatar

It's weird to see you write "the AI system's pre-programmed expectations", since AI systems aren't programmed to do what they do, so as I see it this has to be either a bias from its training data or some text inserted later, after training.

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Jordan Harrod's avatar

Probably could have phrased it better re: hard coding vs training data, although I do stand by that framing to some degree since someone did have to decide which interviews were "good" vs "bad" for labeling purposes.

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ρE sin(i)'s avatar

I'm not sure. IMO it's unclear from their phrasing whether things like eye contact and facial expressions were intended as filtering mechanisms or whether it's a bias they noticed in the model and "helpfully" notified you about, in which case no one explicitly programmed the system to do this in any sense of the word. Anyway, this sucks and I hope systems that take the meaningful part of an interview away like this will be gone soon.

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