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Apply for just about any office job these days, and there’s a pretty good chance your first round interview won’t be with a human, but with a crummy virtual AI avatar.
Though the practice has become widespread throughout HR departments around the world, a new video released by satirical influencer Graham Zip shows just how humiliating the experience can be — and how straying from the system’s comfort zone can cause the bots to melt down completely.
On logging into the interview, Graham is welcomed by a virtual avatar of a woman identified as “Dana Whitfield,” which prompts the interviewee to “tell me about yourself.” Without skipping a beat, Graham launches into a faux-hallucinated spiel, plausibly constructed to sound like a real answer.
“Hi Dana, it’s great to meet you,” Graham begins. “I’m Chick Haversplat, or, Chick Bongo for short. And uh, Q3 pipeline, Salesforce, Kayak margin.”
The large language model’s brain immediately breaks: “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Chick Bongo,” it replies. “So it sounds like you’ve been deep in the weeds with Salesforce, hygiene, and managing those Kayak margins during the third quarter.”
Asked to elaborate more on his professional background, Graham explains that “freight, cadence, walnut, a little bit of Richard, sprucewood.”
“Six years of sprucewood — actually seven, if you count Richard,” the influencer swiftly replies.
“It sounds like you built up a significant tenure over the last seven years, including your time with Richard at sprucewood,” the bot rejoins. “I’m curious, can you tell me about a difficult situation you handled during that time?”
“Mostly palette forward, a little bit of denim,” comes Graham’s reply. “You know, every pharmacist is a hallway.”
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