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Amazingly a company apparently had the balls to do an "AI powered" round of job interviews, which receives here all the respect it deserves.
Aug 28, 2026 10:56 PM
Jonson71
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Amazingly a company apparently had the balls to do an "AI powered" round of job interviews, which receives here all the respect it deserves.
SecondSince
We all have a little bit of denim from time to time.
oldsweaty
Took me a second to differentiate this from regular ‘salesforce consultant’ horseshit.
Still hated it. Fuck AI
CanisMaximus
"I understand."
uncas5128
I am trying to hire and in each round there are now one or two candidates who submit my questions to AI and read back the answers, in real time.
legobumb
There's such a huge concern over potential employees using AI to do interviews for them and here companies are using AI to conduct interviews. The double standard is hilariously sad. I want to see two AI talk to each other during an interview like this and see what transpires lol.
emmythefox11
Chief Bongo?! https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cWVzdWpjcnZrNXd2NGFyb2xiNnU1eWlicDBwc3M3bmQ4NGk2eGxpYiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/CekqZVCHgZ2mMnp99v/200w.webp
YeastInfectedWhiskerBiscuit
Stay away from any company that does shit like this. I won't touch a company or their products if they promote AI in any way. In their motto, to their ads, to their products. If I get a whiff of anything AI related, I'm out the door and your company is going on my shit list.
frischcode
Chick Bongo is a highly respected raccoon protocol professional, and he'd be an asset on any team (but especially drill bits).
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
That creepy ass blinking.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Nicely illustrates why the Turing test is BS. It's easy for chatbots to pass as human when the conversation partner makes an effort to treat the thing like a person. But why would we? We've come to hate bots. All we want to do is mess with them & fuck them up if we can be arsed to interact with them at all. So this should be the new Turing test. If the toaster doesn't ask "are you having a stroke" or "what the hell is wrong with you" one minute in,it doesn't get to call itself AI. It's just an A
zeacorzeppelin10
I would not keep applying if they gave me an AI chat bot to interview with and would purposely find a way to break it.
HillOfBeans
Muthafuckin’ Sprucewood with Richard, Chick Bongo.
LespritDeLescalier22
All day erry day
AtmaDarkwolf
LOL ai? more like 'regurgitate what you tell it and phrase it differently back!'
randombrain
ELIZA but with CGI video
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
LLMs in a nutshell. Which is what makes these things so dangerous when people use them as substitutes for friends or companions, or even as therapists. "Lately I've been thinking about assassinating the pope." – "Sounds like assassinating the pope is an important goal to you. I bet you could succeed if you put your mind to it." Even if they add safeguards, eventually the bot caves when the user keeps pressing the matter and says "Well, if it's so important to you maybe you should give it a try."
stonecoldstevebuschemi
Hahahaha, fuck. We are in the bad place, aren't we?
iusedtodream
Raccoon protocols are notoriously Dicks.
Howlingowl
Excellent. If the companies are going to treat the interview process like it’s a waste of time they deserve people to treat it like a joke.
Racealistic
"every pharmacist is a hallway" D:
chewmaca2
And here i was thinking they were gateways.
ThemApplesNYC
Two plumes of gauze please
loxiabun
Fucking NAME and SHAME... I KNOW THEY HAVE NO SHAME. But at least let other people look know what ass hole is doing this sort of "AI" power horse shit
RetrogradeLlama
Without a company name, it's just Internet bullshit.
ReaperCDN
WELL?!? DID CHICK BONGO GET THE FUCKING JOB? Those racoons aren't going to hallway drillbit sideways by themselves Ferris.
Omicron416
To say nothing of the pharmacists on the work truck!
JustAName00
Give it broken up gibberish and it will fill in what it estimates would be correct. It's a language model. It's converting the words to tokens and probabilistically matching them with tokens that assemble a coherent response that fits its parameters.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
This is also why this shit couldn't be further from actual intelligence. It's artificial sycophancy. It'll never say "What the hell are you even rambling about" or "Are you fucking with me?", or "I feel like I should call a bondulance".
JustAName00
I wouldn't necessarily say never, but it needs new breakthroughs on how it analyzes prompts, assembles outputs, and validates output integrity. Larger models with more parameters and more iterative processing isn't going to solve the problem.
MoralRectifier
I don't know about y'all, but I wanna hear more about the gauze plumes.
ElectricSlideOrchestra
I need a rundown of the raccoon protocol. It sounds like something I would absolutely implement at my job.
atypicalname
Makes me wonder if you could give 'em the ole "Bobby Tables" treatment somehow and fuck with the system.
https://xkcd.com/327
Bacxaber
Some phrase involving "WWE" causes AI to have a minutes-long aneurysm.
J3lek
If it's like those AI phone calls, they pay more the longer you engage with the AI. I saw a video on Imgur where a guy asked the AI on the phone to do a bunch of ridiculous adjustments to how it talks(such as always say Albuquerque, New Mexico, instead of the letter A when it comes up in a word. It helps me to understand you) until it gets so bloated remembering the new programming that it eventually just shits the bed.
YoureWaifuAShit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhi6JU5pOJk
ThisSiteIsAnEternity
That was possibly the best video I'd ever seen in this AI hellscape we live in. "Albuquerque, New Mexico" has become a random phrase in this house that we say when we can't think of what else to say.
YoureWaifuAShit
actually the specific video that you're thinking of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk3jCuITwcE
J3lek
Yep
TatsuhikoShido
Made my eye twitch that she starts almost every sentence with "It sounds like..."
Omicron416
*it
INeverReadTheTOS
I hate this timeline so much.
Ricdesan
Not my favorite at all ... I hate the damn warehouse robodogs at the end.
Vempire
Too much burning of forests, not enough burning of company infrastructure. Make is cost them more than they ever expected.
brownribbon
All I’m saying is, trunk line optical fiber cables are relatively easy to find and even easier to disable.
subparsubpoena
Also, cut in multiple locations and pull the cable out where possible, otherwise the repairs are way too easy.
brownribbon
Yes, that is imperative. Doesn’t even need to be multiple locations, even a 1-2m section cut out makes repairs so much more difficult. Of course, 1-2m sections at multiple locations is best.
subparsubpoena
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NWR0YzM0aXVtY21lOGJiYnFrNHM3aWt1eDd5M2Zkd2Nlemh0YzlhbCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/AyPs520p8Di2k/200w.webp
gablestout
Maybe if you paid more attention to your Salesforce Kayak margins ...
MuffinProof
I don't think this timeline is fond of us, either.
ShadenCrusnik
The matrix was right. We did peak in the 90s.
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Old Russian saying; “…..and then things got worse”
Radijsjes
I thought that was the tagline for the Lions led by Donkeys podcast.\
OperationRustysBlanket
But I didn’t want to learn Russian
Idontneedrealfacts
I ended up reading Anna Karenina in jr high school just so I could crush out the "points" needed for the assignment of the quarter. And man, "....and then things got worse" is absolutely what Tolstoy wrote except for the end, when she gets hit by that train, I cheered. For her, and for me.
IvanTorhiscokov
I had an AI bot, from a local dealership, text me repeatedly and then quote me a 2 hour repair on a recall. There were two small details the AI was not privy to. 1) There's a North American shortage on the part so there are months long waits and 2) The dealership had several vehicles on their lot waiting 2+ weeks. Best part, not a single human oversaw the discussion nor did they inform me that if I qualified for the recall, my vehicle would be bricked until repairs were completed in October.
yrypics
Genuinely impressed with the dude's ability to spool out random BS in real time.
toogoodtomiss
I thi k he wrote some of it down ahead of time. It’s hard for our brains to stay on track about being off track Terrance wood chip halibut.
Rogerwilco1974
I think there's a fair chance this is his own local AI model and this is done for teh lulz.
Snooj
It sounds like you have the ability to biss time for real while having a spool.
BananaForScaIe
The third corridor is the correct walnut, after all, y'know?
flawles
True skill. I once had a musician ask me to write a nonsense libretto for an opera. I worked on it for months, and it was not easy. Making nongrammatical sentences is very hard for most people. Our brains are wired for sensical thought filtered through learned grammatical structures. This guy works well outside that box. But he might have notes to help him.
FaeVikingPrincess
This guy seemed to take regular grammar and just replaced words that would normally be in the sentence with wildly unrelated words. So potato chicken avalanche with 7 weeks of bongo binging ringtose.
graceinsheepsclothing
I think he's just following basic Racoon Protocol.
toogoodtomiss
Wow I tried to say what you said but you did so much more better.
DigitalDruid255
Racoon protocol.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
I think that's a Mission Impossible/Resident Evil crossover.
hiyo365
Drill bit, for sure.
interestingmonster
My new band name
Jimothy and the Raccoon Protocol
kmikl
Sorry, that's my post modern/re-de-reconstructionist electro funk polka garage band name.
It's copylefted.
vernicator
Only if there's enough sideways drill bits to make it worth your while.
manystripes
Nobody else who applied knows raccoon protocol, immediate point in Chick Bongo's favor.
toogoodtomiss
But Denim tho…
likerice
Racocoonie gets it
ExtraWoody
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
I understand this is a topic RFK has extensive background in.
Hawkgirl203
He is lucky to have survived the raccoon protocol, many haven’t.
djhash
Without the raccoon protocol we’d succumb to zombie apocalypse easily.
thedudeman519
Leon Kennedy has entered the chat
MuffinProof
I'd venture to say racoon protocol is exactly why we'll succumb to the zombie apocalypse
Discgolfing
Yeah, that is what happened in Raccoon city
dieselpunk
Jimothy!
Imademyselfsquirtle
Racoon City Protocol
PointlessBarking
My friend doesn't know what the raccoon protocol is.
TheDreadPirateMontoya
That's where the government nukes an entire city to stop a zombie outbreak from spreading.
MrNardtastic
Nah thats the racoon city protocol, raccoon protocol is when you just steal shit you dont need for no reason
CommunCreator
It’s a great band name. Maybe a Train-inspired band, with Plumes of Gauze as their first album. (Tell your friend not to think too hard about it. It’s all just random words strung together.)
Zeterai
We'll tell you but first you need to show us which of these images has a bicycle in it.
MangoisaFatPootinsBiiitch
*bicycles lets make it bit harder for them
mafiacarstarter
The best Mission Impossible movie
lozeldatkm
You sure that wasn't just a Sly Cooper game?
DigitalDruid255
Starring Jimothy, voiced by Andy Serkis.
johneventually1
@peterjackson you need to see this
WestOfTheM00n
Played by Patrick Warburton.
hotice919
No no no, voiced by Jimothy, motion capture by Serkis
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
A lot of companies using AI interviews and honestly this is one of the smoothest ones I've seen. I had one ask me the same question 5 times in a row, guess it didn't like my answer? It's just so absolutely absurd that this could just be a questionnaire, even if they want you to record a video and send it in or something, the use of these 'interviewers' is so utterly meaningless and such a waste of time and resources.
SergeyPrkl
There is one aspect though which is a good one. The can monitor your enthusiasm to come up with unique solutions to totally unexpected even weird situations. Testing your imagination
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
There aren't any unexpected or weird situations in these interviews, they do nothing but read a script and rehash what you said with an added prompt. The only things they test is your patience and how much you really want to work for a company that absolutely doesn't care in the least about it's employees or the world around it.
SergeyPrkl
I'd hire this guy exactly because what he did here. Ofc, it needs to be spotted first...
Howlingowl
All an AI interviewer communicates to a potential employee is that the company only values the time an employee spends working for them. I can’t think of a larger red flag for a potential employer to have.
oznobz
AI lets them still use racist hiring practices. Recorded responses leaves a trail for racism
ChuckleVoodooist
It really sucks.. Cause I NEVER put my race when doing the hiring questionnaire, I'll get great feedback during voice and email, then the moment it's a forced video call I get ghosted.
scrumbles666
But it's a use for AI which is what companies are really after. They've bought into this shit, spent money on subscriptions, and now need to generate some sort of use for it so they can produce a metric showing they've used it.
pookieeatworld
BuT wE hAvE tO LeVeRAgE AI!!!
adiving
Well, we do have to leverage AI... just you know, nowhere even remotely close to most of the things it is used for :(
chipjack
If I have my AI interview for me with their AI and it goes really well, do they hire me or, like, Claude or whatever?
pompoikpoik
How do they pay for the service ? Is that a fix price or a pay-per-inteeview price ? If the latter, we can apply and upload plenty of useless interviews
Jonson71
Honestly this is STUNNING to me. I'm old and out of the job market but when I first saw this I couldn't fucking *believe* any company would have the balls to do this. You confirming that it's a common(ish) practice is so (sadly) shocking. Fuck these cunts.
micuu
This is mostly about 1) wasting money on AI 2) miming a process so it looks like they are trying to hire when they really aren't, or already have someone picked out 3) making people jump through hoops so they get the most obedient monkeys at the end if they do actually hire anyone
sunyudai
You have to remember that most companies want to look like they are hiring because it looks good for investors, but didn't want to actually hire.
So this kind of bullshit is often a thin veneer of plausible deniability about wanting to reject all applicants.
This is a symptom of the impact of the stock market, especially day traders.
AnonymousSourceOfGenitals
There's also an endless amount of personality tests for jobs like cashier.
mastertmo
They've had those for decades. I somehow failed a personality test to work at a movie theater back in the 90s