Washington Post via MSN – The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and overreliance on software such as ChatGPT is making the job market increasingly surreal. “The speedy embrace of AI tools meant to make job hunting and hiring more efficient is causing headaches and sowing distrust in these processes, people on both sides of the equation say. While companies embrace AI recruiters and application scanning systems, many job seekers are trying to boost their odds with software that generates application materials, optimizes them for AI and applies to hundreds of jobs in minutes. Meanwhile, recruiters and hiring managers are fielding more applicants than they can keep up with, yet contend that finding real, qualified workers amid the bots, cheaters and deepfakes is only getting tougher as candidates use AI to write their cover letters, bluff their way through interviews and even hide their identities. Vidoc Security Lab, a Polish cybersecurity start-up, recently put out a guide on how to detect fake job seekers after nearly hiring a “deepfake” candidate who made it through multiple stages of the company’s hiring process while using software to obscure their face and beat coding tests. Such candidates pose a major security threat, Vidoc’s chief executive Klaudia Kloc said, because they may be trying to steal data or proprietary information…”