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applegrove

(132,222 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 01:53 PM Dec 2025

Oh no. AI is filtering out non white people and women

from jobs when hiring.

"These language learning models favored white associated names 85% of the time and filtered out women associated names 89% of the time."

These recruiting tools also can't tell the nuance of your skills, just scanning for words.

Corporate America is about to get much more white and male.

#Pinks

🌬CasuallyLucid🌀🌊 (@casuallylucid.bsky.social) 2025-12-09T16:44:57.232Z
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Oh no. AI is filtering out non white people and women (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2025 OP
Unconscionable dickthegrouch Dec 2025 #1
Kick dalton99a Dec 2025 #2
Somehow, I'm not too surprised by this. mwmisses4289 Dec 2025 #3
Yep, that makes perfect sense PatSeg Dec 2025 #5
AI is working as intended DBoon Dec 2025 #4
Wouldn't using a VPN erase a person's regular ID tags? FakeNoose Dec 2025 #6
I have had a number of friends who were female that had male names. Zackzzzz Dec 2025 #7
So far as I can tell I don't see any intelligence. Just a souless dead machine imitating something or other. flashman13 Dec 2025 #8

dickthegrouch

(4,528 posts)
1. Unconscionable
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 02:13 PM
Dec 2025

I had a hard enough time as a white male over 50 getting a new job.
If ARTIFICIAL iniquity is involved like this - good luck!

mwmisses4289

(4,186 posts)
3. Somehow, I'm not too surprised by this.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 02:26 PM
Dec 2025

Many of the tech bros who developed this very, very flawed technology are white males who appear to hate anyone who isn't also a white male tech bro.

FakeNoose

(41,637 posts)
6. Wouldn't using a VPN erase a person's regular ID tags?
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 04:10 PM
Dec 2025

If not, then using a non-tagging browser for job-searching would be the next step, I would guess.
I'm glad I'm retired and no longer having to deal with this bullsh#t!

Zackzzzz

(363 posts)
7. I have had a number of friends who were female that had male names.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 05:00 PM
Dec 2025

I remember when Adrian and I went into a meeting together
and the men in the room had assumed that Adrian would be a male.
The look on their faces.
Their eyes almost popped out of their heads.

Advancement decisions in large businesses have
been made on the first names of their workers.

flashman13

(2,403 posts)
8. So far as I can tell I don't see any intelligence. Just a souless dead machine imitating something or other.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 05:09 PM
Dec 2025
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