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An employer says she caught a job seeker applying for a role with a ChatGPT cover letter, but it lacked personal information and cost them the job.

Beatrice Nolan
Fri, March 3, 2023, 1:36 AM GMT+9·4 min read
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Employer says she caught a candidate applying with a ChatGPT cover letter.Kilito Chan/Getty Images
  • Mandy Tang said that a candidate applied for a role with an AI-generated cover letter.

  • Tang said she isn't against the tech, but was shocked at the letter's lack of personal information.

  • A recruiting expert told Insider that AI-generated letters are already becoming easier to spot.

Mandy Tang, a career coach and business owner, said she received an application for a part-time résumé writer role around five minutes after she posted the job on UpWork, an online freelancing platform.

Although she hadn't requested a cover letter, the job seeker sent her one. At first glance, Tang said they looked like a perfect fit for the role.

"The letter was really well-formed, incredibly well-written, and had literally everything I wanted," Tang told Insider. "But then I looked closer and realized it was just a copy and paste of everything I had put in the job description."

She said she noticed the letter even appeared to have lifted some of her own experience: "There was a part in the job description where I had said things like, 'I have run a business for five years,' and then the cover letter also said 'I have run a business for five years.'"

Tang said she had heard of job seekers using OpenAI's ChatGPT and suspected the letter might have been AI-generated. She asked the chatbot to write her a cover letter based on the job description, and the results were "word-for-word the same."

Based on her findings, Tang said she believed the candidate had put the job description through ChatGPT. "I just thought it was wild," she said.

Tang said she didn't take issue with job seekers using the technology in general but was shocked the candidate hadn't appeared to edit the letter or add much personal information.

When tested by Insider, one popular AI detector concluded the text was "likely" written by an AI. OpenAI's AI classifier said the text was "possibly" AI-generated.

Tang didn't follow up with the candidate, citing the nature of the role, a lack of personal information, and language that too closely mimicked the job description.

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