AI has already made its way into a lot of areas, like hiring. People use AI to pass all the tests for IT positions, while HR uses AI to go through those resumes and pick the right candidate. So basically, one AI ends up getting hired by another AI. Do I even need to point out that in this situation, people are just gradually stopping to think for themselves?
The current hiring process is a good example of the AI Arms Race that Cory Doctorow was writing about recently. https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/10/deep-state-wopr/#abelard-... - It's also a good example of a multi-polar trap. The rules of the current game assure everyone looses.
One thing I just don’t get is why these obvious conclusions don’t occur to the people who decided to use AI tools for hiring. They must understand all of this, but it benefits them, so they just go for the short-term gains. It feels like people aren’t planning to learn or develop any further at all.
A recent tragedy is the shuttering of the airplanes.live API. They've recently been bombarded with crazy amounts of traffic from people vibe coding apps, and violating the TOS and using it commercially.
On top of that, after shuttering it to people not feeding data to the system, they were bombarded by LLM written emails, all nearly identical, and all formulaic. It's really sad - but they chuck them right in the bin.
That is a travesty. I can't help but hope we can find ways to protect projects like this in a way that doesn't require government or corporate regulation. Others have mentioned a Web of Trust / Social Credit - if we could wire that into the the http protocol ...