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in a strange twist, screening job application paperwork is exactly a major use-case for AI now, and actual job interviews using AI (not a person) are increasing
by mistrial9 3y ago
in a strange twist, screening job application paperwork is exactly a major use-case for AI now, and actual job interviews using AI (not a person) are increasing. Labor-type jobs, including skilled labor, seem to be exactly a target for capital-backed AI companies.
Meanwhile, "increased job listings" inevitably recalls the case of Zillow. While Zillow executives were amassing real estate portfolios and enabling others to do so, on a large scale using their own platform, there was a very well-publicized job advertisement for "data scientists" .. in the new field at the time, it was exciting to a lot of people... a LOT of people.. Zillow hired a small handful of data scientists, for a total amount of money that was almost nothing compared to the asset portfolios being bandied about internally.. and those data scientists were.. let go? Where is Zillow now?
It is almost certain that the real estate and their new owners were not "fired". It appears to be a morality play story about this whole AI publicity push... massive capital behind the scenes, allocated however it is allocated.. with publicity reserved for "job creation" in the single digits, and like facial recognition, used more against "job seekers" than for the few that get employed.