LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs (404media.co) 17
An anonymous reader shares a report: LinkedIn has removed at least two accounts that were created for AI "co-workers" whose profile images said they were "#OpenToWork." "I don't need coffee breaks, I don't miss deadlines, and I'll outperform any social media team you've ever worked with -- Guaranteed," the profile page for one of these AI accounts called Ella said. "Tired of human 'experts' making excuses? I deliver, period." The #OpenToWork flair on profile pictures is a feature on LinkedIn that lets people clearly signal they are looking for a job on the professional networking platform.
"People expect the people and conversations they find on LinkedIn to be real," a LinkedIn spokesperson told me in an email. "Our policies are very clear that the creation of a fake account is a violation of our terms of service, and we'll remove them when we find them, as we did in this case." The AI profiles were created by an Israeli company called Marketeam, which offers "dedicated AI agents" that integrate with a client's marketing team and help them execute their marketing strategies "from social media and content marketing to SEO, RTM, ad campaigns, and more."
"People expect the people and conversations they find on LinkedIn to be real," a LinkedIn spokesperson told me in an email. "Our policies are very clear that the creation of a fake account is a violation of our terms of service, and we'll remove them when we find them, as we did in this case." The AI profiles were created by an Israeli company called Marketeam, which offers "dedicated AI agents" that integrate with a client's marketing team and help them execute their marketing strategies "from social media and content marketing to SEO, RTM, ad campaigns, and more."
A whole 2 accounts?! Wow (not) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:A whole 2 accounts?! Wow (not) (Score:5, Funny)
If they start removing AI HR agents posting ghost positions all over the place, Linkedin will turn into a desolate wasteland, devoid of content...
Some say it wouldn't be much different from what it is right now, tho.
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If they start removing AI HR agents posting ghost positions all over the place, Linkedin will turn into a desolate wasteland, devoid of content...
The AIs will end up chattering back and forth among themselves trying to 'hire' each other, and we'll be able to sit back and place bets on which AI gets 'hired' for the 'job'.
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Gotta get those H-1Bs in somehow, and ghost jobs are mainly to show that the company acted in good faith, didn't find anyone skilled enough, so has to obtain world class people from overseas.
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I used to get a bunch of job spam from a company called Crossover / Trilogy pretending to offer salaries like $800,000 for a chief software architect. Some jobs would pretend they were in Galway, others in Dublin. What they didn't say was that was that salary was a theoretical maximum if you worked continuously since it was basically a zero hours remote working job and your profile got stuck up on some marketplace waiting for somebody to want you. And that could be months or never. And that's assuming you p
Proprietary (Score:3)
Where?? (Score:2)
Where is everything going and why is it all in this handbasket??
Wait. What? (Score:5, Funny)
"People expect the people and conversations they find on LinkedIn to be real," a LinkedIn spokesperson told me in an email.
This is news to anyone who ever made the mistake of accessing LinkedIn.
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Yeah, they've got a mountain to climb if they're trying to make that a reality. Just two accounts isn't going to cut it - thousands of accounts, tens of thousands of job posts, millions of article posts and probably billions of comments still left to tackle.
Wow (Score:2)
"In the second half of 2023, the company detected and removed approximately 63.6 million fake accounts. "
So that's about 130 million a year, one wonders if there's any REAL accounts in there, personally I never encountered one.
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The real accounts are likely people not posting, or at best may be celebrating a job change.
Makes me wonder how to handle this issue, as AI bots are only going to get worse.
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"The real accounts are likely people not posting"
So, like Facebook? :-)
"Makes me wonder how to handle this issue, as AI bots are only going to get worse."
They can offer jobs to each other, 24/7.
AI agents (Score:2)
This tells me people are already marketing their purpose-built AI agents that can perform certain kinds of tasks, possibly faster and at least as good as people.
Presumably you just rent the agent, no 'salary' required. There will be an online marketplace for these specific things. Eventually the agents will just do all the figuring out about which agent specialty skills are required and just hire each other as needed.
The job of humans will be to look up from their phone on occasion and give their agents som
"Tired of human 'experts' making excuses?" (Score:3)
"when I make excuses there's nobody real to blame for them, and no way to prevent them next time!"
Interesting that they'd choose to highlight this as a feature.
Now remove all the spam and promoted garbage (Score:3)
I regret joining (back when it wasn't anywhere as bad) and only stay as a consequence of work I'm in and future opportunities. Engaging with the service is a bad idea and I recommend you don't. Don't link with agents, don't link with people you don't know. Lock down your privacy settings, don't post photos or personal info. Even then it is full of spam, scams, upselling, notifications, and dark patterns. Even the feed is saturated with scams and fake engagement that LinkedIn "suggests" with no way to disable. LinkedIn doesn't give a damn about spam and will reject it.
So I'm sure AI will fit right in there, degrading the service even more. I can only assume that is aware of these particular bots because they used a hashtag. The next lot won't.