Jeff Rawlings

Entrepreneur, citizen scientist, and insatiably curious generalist

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@LivingMyDreamSB @usedgov You mean that isn’t actually a “pipe wrench”?

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

I’m not a lawyer… but from my lay perspective this seems like a recipe for a future class action to me. If this is true, companies using AI screening might be vulnerable.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
😂

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@unlimited_ls @cindygallop Sounds like a lawsuit (and/or a class action suit) may be in order..,

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.

CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.

Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.

The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

In 2020, during a deadly heatwave in California, Cruz blamed its “failed” energy grid and said the state was "unable to perform even basic functions of civilization.” And yet, where does Cruz go when it’s freezing in Texas and his state’s power grid can’t handle the cold?

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@MenInBlazers I’m so conflicted! Great for the US team, but my wife was an exchange student to Uruguay, and it’s been SO MUCH MORE FUN to root for Uruguay over the past 30 years

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@SenSanders @SenatorBaldwin @GavinNewsom California can lead. Let us BUY Medical. Add it to the exchange. At cost. We will buy it.

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@kevinsimler I was just going to reread Crony Beliefs... but it looks like https://t.co/aesXetWN6j is down. Thought you should know.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: https://t.co/DF82ASFj1a]

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@bgurley Disney should not be allowed to own Fubo (or Hulu for that matter). We need real antitrust enforcement.

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@jason_kint Sounds like a class action would be justified? Cc: @doctorow for another example of #enshittification from Google allowed by monopoly consolidation

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

Are you a marketer? Do you spend money on Google or Meta or TikTok? You should watch this:

[Rand Fishkin (follow @randderuiter on Threads) @randfish]

It's the end of traffic as we know it.

My talk from this Spring's The Marketing Meetup in London, is now live: https://t.co/93ylbgvsAd

Do y'all feel fine? 😅

[Eric Columbus @EricColumbus]

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.

She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.

The past isn’t past.

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@jason_kint Some really interesting points! I hope @NBCSports / @peacock take notes. I dropped the cable bundle long ago, and it’s so annoying that they refuse to sell me access to all the premier league games without also paying for Fox News.

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

Sigh… another example of why #visionzero is so important. Let’s figure out how to design our places to prevent cars from being the death machines they have been for so many years

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A Super Ager, Fauja Singh, ran his 1st marathon at age 89, and 8 more after that through age 101.
How does he die at age 114 years?
Hit by a car.
https://t.co/W6P9xgrlfr

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

I predict many bankruptcies among small businesses in the coming months. They have written letters of credit to the factory to start fall goods production. Many won’t have the cash to pay the tariff. And they won’t have leverage with their retailers to increase prices.

[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

This analysis is spot-on. Tariffs will hurt small and mid size brands much harder than giant brands who have already smashed their suppliers for the lowest possible prices. That $20 Nike shoe might cost a small brand $40 - which means they also pay double the tariff

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

For all that orthodox economists *hate* tariffs in all their forms, the question, "do tariffs work?" is a complex one, which can't be answered unless you specify *which* tariffs, in *what* context:

https://t.co/3MhAMMA3O0

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[Jeff Rawlings @QJeffR]

@jbarro @NateSilver538 This is going to bankrupt many small and even mid-sized businesses