AI is remaking the job hunt. Here’s how to navigate the changes

So the job hunt, that tedious dance of hope and rejection, is now being 'remade' by artificial intelligence. The San Francisco Chronicle reports — with the straight face of someone who hasn't been ghosted by a bot — that AI speeds up applications and candidate reviews. But wait: scammers are also using AI to pose as candidates and employers. So now you can be rejected by a scammer algorithm posing as a recruiter, while your own AI application is ignored by another AI. Efficiency!

The article offers a helpful guide on 'how to navigate' this new landscape, presumably including timeless wisdom like 'if the recruiter's emails smell faintly of GPT-4, run.' But the honest advice would be: 'there is no navigation; you are in an ocean of bots, and so is everyone else.' The scammers are using the exact same technology that VCs hype as the future of talent acquisition. We've created a mirror hall of AI applying to AI, and somewhere a human is paying for the privilege of being ignored by both.

The real punchline? The article is published in a personal finance section, as if you can budget your way out of being replaced by a bot. The only sane response is to become a scammer yourself — or better, get an AI to do it for you. Cheers to the remade job hunt: faster, more frustrating, and utterly indistinguishable from the fake.