Wel­come to Decem­ber, Job Board Doc­tor friends! We have almost made it anoth­er rota­tion around the sun and there are no indi­ca­tions that Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI) is going to lessen it’s grip on every part of our pro­fes­sion­al brand mar­ket­ing or our tal­ent tech solu­tions.

Major­i­ty of Long Form LinkedIn Posts Use AI

AI-gen­er­at­ed writ­ing is tak­ing over LinkedIn, where cor­po­rate jar­gon already reigns supreme, mak­ing the plat­form the per­fect play­ground for algo­rith­mic non­sense. Microsoft­’s shiny AI tools for Pre­mi­um sub­scribers promise to “rewrite” posts and mes­sages, but let’s be hon­est: most LinkedIn posts already sound like they were writ­ten by a robot. Accord­ing to Orig­i­nal­i­ty AI, more than half of the longer posts on LinkedIn are like­ly AI-generated—a stat that soared when Chat­G­PT entered the scene in ear­ly 2023. But who can tell the dif­fer­ence? Whether it’s a human or a bot, every­one’s just churn­ing out the same “thought leader”  dri­v­el, all wrapped in the same sac­cha­rine, buzz­word-laden pack­age.

Of course, not every­one’s thrilled about the rise of AI-pow­ered LinkedIn influ­encers. Crit­ics argue it’s killing cre­ativ­i­ty and under­min­ing actu­al human writ­ing skills—because noth­ing screams “inspi­ra­tional” like out­sourc­ing your con­grat­u­la­tions post to an algo­rithm. Mean­while, users like entre­pre­neurs and con­tent cre­ators defend their reliance on AI, claim­ing it’s all about effi­cien­cy. Sure, you could take four min­utes to write a heart­felt note to an ex-colleague—or you could let an AI bot spit out some­thing bland in four sec­onds. On LinkedIn, where vanil­la  is prac­ti­cal­ly the brand, it’s hard­er to tell where the humans stop and the machines begin.

Read more at Wired.

Devel­op­ers Beware: FTC Pur­sues AI Ven­dor’s False Adver­tis­ing and BS Val­i­da­tion

The Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion (FTC) is on a mis­sion to shut down the AI hype machine with its apt­ly named Oper­a­tion AI Com­ply—a take­down of com­pa­nies using arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to deceive and defraud. Lead­ing the pack of (alleged) offend­ers is DoNot­Pay, which sold itself as the “world’s first robot lawyer.” Spoil­er alert: it was­n’t. Promis­ing every­thing short of argu­ing before the Supreme Court, it failed to deliv­er any­thing resem­bling actu­al legal exper­tise. Then there’s Ascend Ecom, which swin­dled con­sumers out of mil­lions by tout­ing AI-pow­ered tools that would alleged­ly rake in “pas­sive income” through online store­fronts. Spoil­er again: the only thing pas­sive about it was con­sumers watch­ing their mon­ey dis­ap­pear.

Not to be out­done, Ecom­merce Empire Builders ped­dled dreams of “AI-pow­ered empires” that turned out to be as real as a uni­corn on Wall Street. Mean­while, Rytr made it easy to flood the inter­net with fake con­sumer reviews, because who needs hon­esty when AI can churn out lies for you? And let’s not for­get FBA Machine, which got so cre­ative with its scam that it rebrand­ed itself to dodge law­suits while con­tin­u­ing to sell pipe dreams of AI-dri­ven e‑commerce rich­es.

But the pièce de résis­tance? Evolv Tech­nolo­gies, which claimed its AI secu­ri­ty scan­ners could replace old-school met­al detec­tors with cut­ting-edge tech. Turns out, these scan­ners were great at find­ing harm­less lap­tops but not so great at detect­ing weapons—like the sev­en-inch knife that slipped through and was lat­er used in a school stab­bing.

The FTC isn’t buy­ing the “but it’s AI!” excuse. From court orders to set­tle­ments, they’re mak­ing it clear that snake oil—whether wrapped in buzz­words or code—won’t fly. If these com­pa­nies thought they could exploit AI hys­te­ria for a quick buck, the FTC just hand­ed them (and us) a real­i­ty check, with inter­est.

Sure, there isn’t TA tech on this ini­tial offend­er list how­ev­er job board and recruit­ment tech ven­dors who are sell­ing slick AI solu­tions with­out trans­paren­cy and clear val­i­da­tion of method­ol­o­gy should take a beat and review their sales tech­niques and solu­tion’s impact before the gov­ern­ment comes a knockin’.

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