"And beneath the official jobs data is a growing accessibility crisis. More and more job seekers are finding themselves shut out of the labor market - not because there are no jobs to be had, but because torrents of AI slop are crowding them out of consideration. Case in point: a few months back, tech publication The Markup posted an opening for an engineer role."
""Within 12 hours of posting the role, we received more than 400 applications," Losowsky explained. "At first, most of these candidates seemed to be genuine. However, as the person who had to read them all, I quickly saw some red flags, which were all clear indicators of inauthenticity." Those "red flags" included repeating contact information, broken or nonworking links to LinkedIn profiles, repetitive resume formatting, and non-residential mailing addresses."
U.S. jobs growth stalled in December after a difficult year, with layoffs and hiring freezes in sectors like construction and manufacturing weakening overall employment. An accessibility crisis is emerging as many job seekers are shut out not for lack of openings but because AI-generated mass applications crowd genuine candidates from consideration. A published hiring experiment drew over 400 applications in 12 hours, revealing inauthentic submissions with repeating contact details, broken LinkedIn links, repetitive formatting, non-residential addresses, near-identical four-sentence responses, explicit "ChatGPT says" text, and false claims about prior work. The employer removed the job ad after one day.
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