Folks on TikTok are exposing job employers for using AI models as interviewers instead of real people, and the glitchy results are truly off-the-wall bonkers.
In one video posted by TikTok-user @petobsessed777, the AI interviewer is shown repeating the phrase “let’s touch base” over and over again, slurring the words into a disjointed mess that doesn’t even sound like English.
“Should I email them?” the user captioned the video.
“I was expecting a real human. They didn’t tell me ahead of time they’d use AI.”
Comments on the video expressed their own bewilderment on a company using an AI interviewee, with one commentator describing the concept as “insulting” to the potential employee.
“This enrages me,” a user commented on the video.
“This is the second AI interview I’ve seen in two days. The amount of hoops they make us jump through to apply for jobs and then they use AI for the resumes and now the interviews?! Dystopian…”
Another video, posted by user @its_ken04, showed a similar situation where an AI interviewer kept repeating “vertical bar pilates” until it devolved into nonsense.
“It was genuinely so creepy and weird,” they captioned the video.
“Please stop trying to be lazy and have AI try to do your job! It gave me the creeps so bad.”
The TikTokker, who goes by Ken, told technology outlet Futurism that she was “freaked out” by the incident.
“I was very shocked, I didn’t do anything to make it glitch so this was very surprising,” she said.
Technology news source 404 discovered that the AI interviewers were used by AI recruiter start-up Apriora, which claims that it helps employers to hire people “87 per cent faster” and “93 per cent cheaper” than human counterparts. Capitalism, I guess!!
All of that was awful enough, but a third video revealed two AI interviewers talking to each other and hiring each other instead of the human interviewee.
In the video a female AI model asks about experience with coding (seemingly directed towards the potential employee), before the second interviewer answers for them and discusses their own ‘experience’.
“I will start on Monday,” the AI voice is heard saying.
“Third-wheeling his own interview,” a comment on the video read.
“People need to start name-dropping these companies if they’re gonna waste people’s time with a bogus interview,” read another comment.
IMHO human job-seekers deserve to speak to actual human interviewers, and maybe then life can start feeling a little bit less than an IRL Black Mirror episode.
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