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by retentionissue 592 days ago
I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with it at all.

If someone is going to just throw away tons of potential candidates for the role because you're lazy and want AI to do your job for you, I think the candidate who did this should be rewarded for outsmarting your laziness.

OP is prime example of why you shouldn't let AI recruit for you.
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JohnFen 592 days ago
OP wasn't using AI.

Personally, I think it shows an amount of dishonesty on the part of the applicant that I would absolutely take into account.

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retentionissue 592 days ago
That's what I'm saying, he caught it because he wasn't using AI. So all the more props to him for it.
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psychoslave 592 days ago
Why? Without further context, you can't tell the injected statement is actually false.

It's not like the candidate went to interview step, was frankly asked about it, and lied with deny.

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JohnFen 591 days ago
> you can't tell the injected statement is actually false.

It's dishonest on its face because it's trying to subvert the theoretical automation in order to get it to produce a false report. That's overt lying in my view, but even if you don't consider is so, it is at least lying-adjacent and is entirely dishonest.

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