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applegrove

(129,617 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 12:53 PM 22 hrs ago

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 22 hrs ago OP
Unconscionable dickthegrouch 22 hrs ago #1
Kick dalton99a 22 hrs ago #2
Somehow, I'm not too surprised by this. mwmisses4289 21 hrs ago #3
Yep, that makes perfect sense PatSeg 20 hrs ago #5
AI is working as intended DBoon 21 hrs ago #4
Wouldn't using a VPN erase a person's regular ID tags? FakeNoose 20 hrs ago #6
I have had a number of friends who were female that had male names. Zackzzzz 19 hrs ago #7
So far as I can tell I don't see any intelligence. Just a souless dead machine imitating something or other. flashman13 19 hrs ago #8

dickthegrouch

(4,224 posts)
1. Unconscionable
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 01:13 PM
22 hrs ago

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

(2,957 posts)
3. Somehow, I'm not too surprised by this.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 01:26 PM
21 hrs ago

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

(39,803 posts)
6. Wouldn't using a VPN erase a person's regular ID tags?
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 03:10 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(224 posts)
7. I have had a number of friends who were female that had male names.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 04:00 PM
19 hrs ago

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

(1,876 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, 04:09 PM
19 hrs ago
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