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by JohnFen 597 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 596 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 596 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 596 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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