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  • Edit up front: there is no evidence article author “Rose Dixon” is a real person. The article is filed under “Garden”. They really need to ratchet down the jingoism dial on their AI slop.

    Really hitting the, “rah rah, America is the best” propaganda in this article.

    Note that Aziza Almanakly, the lead author of the study, is a PD Soros Fellowship recipient. (Not to be confused with a different person identified as “lead author” later in the article).

    Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides merit-based funding for New Americans, immigrants and children of immigrants, who are poised to make significant contributions to US culture, society and academia.

    Paul Soros is George Soros’ brother and less visible partner.

    If the current US administration had their way, the leader of this “American achievement” would be in a prison in El Salvador.


  • Yeah, HireVue. My company uses them for some job postings at the discretion of the hiring manager.

    In general I don’t like them. I’ve seen some job postings that get literally hundreds of applicants though, so I get the company would look for ways to process that many more efficiently. I also think it would be difficult for a hiring manager not to judge an applicant on “video presence”, hardly a skill that is top of the priority list for most jobs.

    If AI sorting of videos is available I’ve not seen my company use that feature. To my knowledge, all videos are reviewed by humans. From a previous Lemmy posting about HireVue, I also learned it can be set to only allow one attempt at recording and answering a question, or unlimited.

    I kinda think of it as an escalating arms race. Companies put filters in place for resumes. Applicants found tools that aid them in mass applying with a single click. Companies add more filters like HireVue now to deal with the flood of applicants. Applicants are replying by declining or posting to GitHub or whatever.












  • I use Voyager. Lockout specs for me when selecting an app were ability to apply a custom tag to users, and firmly holding my default view/sort settings.

    I started on Boost for Lemmy after using Boost for Reddit. But I was having some issues with it and it’s not actively updated anymore. Not sure if the creator is done with the project or just busy with something else, but I just checked and it still shows the last app update was in July 2024.