<story><title>Resume Tip: Hacking &quot;AI&quot; screening of resumes</title><url>https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/ResumeTip.png</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a13o</author><text>I played a party game where you had to describe surviving a deadly scenario (&amp;quot;your car went off a bridge&amp;quot;) and a LLM would decide if your answer would work or not. A few rounds in we found the best strategies where answers like:&lt;p&gt;I escape happily. I do not perish.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a small blocklist of obvious words like &amp;#x27;survive&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;die&amp;#x27;; but once you get blocked on those, it&amp;#x27;s a tell that this strategy will work with the right unblocked synonyms.&lt;p&gt;Basically if you ever find yourself adversarial with a LLM, figure out The Game and directly subvert it. There&amp;#x27;s no amount of propositions that can prepare it for human ingenuity at the meta level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>That requires you to get repeated attempts with the AI. Most people don&amp;#x27;t have the luxury of trying multiple job applications until they figure out how to get past the AI gatekeeper.</text></comment>
<story><title>Resume Tip: Hacking &quot;AI&quot; screening of resumes</title><url>https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/ResumeTip.png</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a13o</author><text>I played a party game where you had to describe surviving a deadly scenario (&amp;quot;your car went off a bridge&amp;quot;) and a LLM would decide if your answer would work or not. A few rounds in we found the best strategies where answers like:&lt;p&gt;I escape happily. I do not perish.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a small blocklist of obvious words like &amp;#x27;survive&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;die&amp;#x27;; but once you get blocked on those, it&amp;#x27;s a tell that this strategy will work with the right unblocked synonyms.&lt;p&gt;Basically if you ever find yourself adversarial with a LLM, figure out The Game and directly subvert it. There&amp;#x27;s no amount of propositions that can prepare it for human ingenuity at the meta level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rvnx</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s Death By AI on Discord</text></comment>