Mᴇɢ Hᴏʟᴍᴇs

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[Mᴇɢ Hᴏʟᴍᴇs @MegHolmes]

@Mr_Husky1 Watson's best friend is also an elephant he claimed for himself. It was meant to be a gift for @Kristalght.

[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.

[Mᴇɢ Hᴏʟᴍᴇs @MegHolmes]

@iky_fwjett Don't get married. You're both wrong here. Starting out with "I hope you have a good day" when your true intent was to tell him that he negatively started yours is just as problematic as his replies to you. Release each other and move on.

[Morgan Godvin @MorganGodvin]

Schrödinger’s Second Amendment:

- Guns are a mandatory prerequisite for the government to respect your rights.

- Guns immediately invalidate your rights and the government can execute you on the spot if you have one.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Getting fired for quoting him directly. The fact that the American government and the media in this country have gone on an all-out suppression blitz for anyone who doesn’t praise and lionize a bigot really shows how dystopian it’s all become.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Madeleine L'Engle; only a literate people can be truly free

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

when Virginia Woolf said, “Autumn is my season, dear; it is, after all, the season of the soul” and when F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall” and when Anne Shirley said, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender - 4

Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender - 4,193.

Hope that helps.

[Senator Heidi Campbell @Campbell4TN]

If you're going to a 'No King's Day' event tomorrow (and you should) please take a minute to familiarize yourself with your rights.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Thousands of Anti-Trump 'No Kings Day' protesters march in Philadelphia, PA

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

Just a reminder that the money being spent on Trump’s ego parade could feed every single homeless veteran in America for more than four months.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who agrees with General Milley, on No Kings Day, that "we don't take an oath to a King, or a Queen, or to a tyrant or a dictator... and we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator."

NO KINGS IN AMERICA, EVER!!!

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸 @unMaskedRogue]

“Bottom 60%” is a funny way of saying the majority.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

What horseshit from @DeptofDefense that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them. Then got caught and now they are scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

“Actually I think St Patrick and the Christian religion brought a great deal of misery to Ireland.

We were better off under the druids, dancing in circles under the sun.”

Behan 👏👏

[Owen Wheelson™ @Quadcarl]

He is going to make it illegal for anybody to protest, and when we finally do he will declare martial law.

Yes, that’s what the fascists did in the 1930s and 40s.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Holy crap.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable anticancer T cells that attack pancreatic cancer. 75% of patients cancer free at three years.

[Draft Jon Stewart 2028 @Stewart_2028]

Jon Stewart GOES OFF on Republicans for claiming "patriotism" as theirs, for some reason, despite voting against the American peoples' interests every single day! THIS IS THE KIND OF MESSAGING WE NEED IN 2028!

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

Reminder: the Tates are charged with rape, human trafficking and organised crime in Romania, have been convicted of tax evasion in the UK, and are also facing extradition to the UK over allegations of rape and human trafficking. But apparently this is all OK if you're pro-Trump.

[🇨🇦CoffeyTimeNews🇨🇦 @CoffeyTimeNews]

“I support the idea of Ukraine being compensated first.”

“Second, all of those who paid should be compensated not by Ukraine, by Russia, because they started the war.”

- Emmanuel Macron

Right in Trump’s face!

😂😂😂