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Recruiter: 'What are your hobbies?'
My brain: 'Don't say fucking your mom, don't do it. DON'T. YOU. DARE. SAY. FUCKING. YOUR. MOM!!'
Recruiter: 'You're using chat gpt aren't you?'
Me: 'yep, that's definitely it. Absolutely...'
What do the things I do in my personal time have to do with being selected for a job? Fuck these people, I'm sure the process before reaching these interviews is highly automated (with or without llms). If companies are going to use all kinds of ai bullshit (on top of the usual non-ai bullshit) workers ai-bullshiting back is only fair.
It's one of the many questions meant to ensure you're capable of basic human interaction and aware of basic social conventions. You aren't rambling about your BDSM sex dungeon or how much you love setting Teslas on fire in a mock work setting, you have the tact to choose something work appropriate.
It's also because you might be spending 40 fucking hours a week with the person interviewing you, and it can be nice for them to have some small chat topics going in. No workplace is 100% "keep your head down and just work". Human connection is extraneous to the job at hand, but it sure can make those 40 hours far less of a death march every week.
And now it serves yet another minor purpose: it's another flag that might point to the interviewer using ChatGPT to bullshit things.
It's concerning to me that so many people can't come up with even a few useful reasons for a bullshit interview question like that.
"chatgpt give me a list of hobbies that can be mentioned in a job interview."
The issue is that the companies themselves heavily employ "AI" tools to find a candidate that is as standard and run off the mill as possible. Then the interviewer asks more questions that are mostly standardized and have a standard set of acceptable and a standard set of unacceptable answers.
The entire process is designed to be robotic and it favors people who automatize as much of it as possible.
Companies do want employees who are already robots. And like Capek's original definition.
Look at how companies automate the work schedules based on efficiency above all else and it's no surprise they want us to be replaced all together since even the drugs and propaganda doesn't stop humans from being human.
It favors those who can give up all other aspects to be the best worker, to be a robot covered in skin. And we wonder why people feel so detached and don't want kids. They programmed us poorly as humans.