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I dunno why people even care about this bullshit pseudo-science. The study is dumb AF. The dude didn't even use real resumes. He had an LLM generate TEN fake resumes and then the "result" is still within any reasonable margin of error. Reading this article is like watching a clown show.
It's all phony smoke and mirrors. Clickbait. The usual "AI" grift.
I feel as though generating these "fake" resumes is one of the top uses for LLMs. Millions of people are probably using LLMs to write their own resumes, so generating random ones seems on par with reality.
LLMs reproducing stereotypes is a well researched topic. They do that due to what they are. Stereotypes and bias in (in the training data), bias and stereotypes out. That's what they're meant to do. And all AI companies have entire departments to tune that, measure the biases and then fine-tune it to whatever they deem fit.
I mean the issue aren't women or anything, it's using AI for hiring in the first place. You do that if you want whatever stereotypes Anthropic and OpenAI gave to you.
Just pattern recognition in the end, and extrapolating from that sample size.
Issue is they probably want to pattern-recognize something like merit / ability / competence here. And ignore other factors. Which is just hard to do.
Seems like a normal, sane and totally not-biased source
What the fuck did I just read?
and their companies are biased against humans in hiring.
I don't care what bias they do and don't have ; if you use an LLM to select résumés, you don't deserve to hire me. I make my résumé illegible for LLMs on purpose.
( But don't follow my advice. I don't actually need a job so I can pull this kinda nonsense and be selective, most people probably can't )
How do you make it illegible for LLMs?
Add a whole bunch of white on white nonsense ! You can also insert letters in the middle of words with a font size of 0, although that fucks up a human copy-pasting too, so probably not recommended.
The simplest way is to make your CV an image, and include no OCR data (or nonsense OCR data) in the PDF
You write a creative series of deeply offensive curse words in small white on white print.
Even before LLMs, resumes were processed through keyword filters already. You have to optimize your resume for keyword readers, which should work for LLMs as well.
I use the ARCI model to describe my roles.
these systems cannot run a lemonade stand without shitting their balls
Would be cool if the Technology community found literally any other topic to discuss beyond AI. I’m really over it, and I don’t care.
They're as biased as the data they were trained on. If that data leaned toward male applicants, then yeah, it makes complete sense.
So we can use Trump's own anti-DEI bullshit to kill off LLMs now?
Well, ya see, trump isnt racist against computers
Only half kidding now... the way morality and ethics get extrapolated now by the perfection police, this must mean anti-AI = misogynist.
Bias was baked in via RLHF and also existed in the datasets used for training. Reddit cancer grows
