[HN Gopher] I applied to McDonald's and other fast food jobs but...
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I applied to McDonald's and other fast food jobs but chatbots made
it impossible
Author : nradov
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-06-11 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| version_five wrote:
| All the "ai fairness" bullshit it pretty rich when you consider
| how it's main use case is to abuse people who are desperate
| enough to put up with these automated interactions. All the talk
| about responsible AI and whatnot and how it affects various
| favored demographics is just a smoke screen for how it's really
| being used to treat people like crap.
| SonOfKyuss wrote:
| I think a big part of it is execs at these companies jumping on
| the AI hype train looking to cut costs and stay up with the
| latest trends. They don't realize and likely don't care if the
| end user experience is awful as long as they can claim to be
| "using AI" in some way. Reminds me of the early days of
| outsourcing where there was a mad rush to outsource as much as
| possible to avoid being left out.
| srslack wrote:
| Yes, just like Yudkowsky and Altman are focusing on bullshit
| conceptual, theoretical and absurd risks as a smoke screen to
| what real risks and real harms will and are occurring right
| now, for regulatory capture and more funding for their bullshit
| non profit research orgs, so too do most AI ethics researchers.
|
| I'd say they're not even hiding how useless they are. Hell, one
| of the main criticisms of internal PaLM was that it was not
| progressive enough and didn't toe the Silicon Valley Democrat
| party line and thus was racist.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| AI washing is the new hotness in class warfare
| shortcake27 wrote:
| > The second application asked me to create a general profile and
| fill out other fields, including a video cover letter for the
| recruiting platform.
|
| This is tangential to the AI issue, but wow - absolutely
| horrible. How disillusioned are the execs who come up with these
| ideas? Do they really believe anyone _wants_ to work for them? I
| really feel for people who have no option other than to go
| through this garbage just to land a minimum wage job.
| version_five wrote:
| Videos, including asymmetrical video interviews where the
| candidate has to record themselves answering questions, are
| becoming more common for professional jobs as well. It's
| probably a great screening tool for identifying candidates with
| no self respect and no other options that can be treated badly
| throughout employment. If not illegal, this practice should at
| least be made socially unacceptable. I'm a capitalist, but this
| kind of thing is definitely an argument against unrestricted
| capitalism.
| teclordphrack2 wrote:
| It's going to be an HR and lawsuit issue in the future. There
| is a reason in the USA we don't have head shots on our
| resume.
| version_five wrote:
| An obvious selling feature is that you can get an "ai
| fairness audit" that shows whatever algorithmic screening
| they do of these videos isn't affected by protected
| characteristics. So everyone can applaud about how
| progressive they are because they degrade everyone equally.
| mo_42 wrote:
| Sometimes I ask myself when the first major companies won't need
| any employees anymore. Basically, run by an AI that reports to
| investors and tries to buy robots on the markets to fulfill its
| goals.
|
| Seems like we're not there yet at all.
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