Financial Times: The agent whipped through this task and presented a list of what it deemed the top contenders. The humans did the same thing.
Alas, the two lists did not match. The agent was impressed by glossy applications from candidates who claimed to have achieved exceptional IT feats in record time at a previous employer, or worked on big projects despite scant levels of experience. In short, they were too good to be true — and smacked of having been written with the help of AI…