一位因恶搞AI面试机器人而走红的YouTuber在接受采访时带上了自己的计算伴侣。随着混乱局面的出现，观众们发现让AI担任面试代理并不是个好主意。格雷厄姆·多特·泽普是一位喜剧演员，他的YouTube频道最近因展示用于对求职者进行早期面试的AI机器人荒谬性的视频而迅速走红。在过去几个月里，AI面试官已成为一种相当普遍的现象，而且求职者并不喜欢这种现象，大量视频和社交媒体帖子都在记录人们对它们的厌恶。
A YouTuber who’s gained a following for trolling AI interview bots brought his own computing companion to an interview with him. As chaos ensued, viewers learned that having an AI as your interview agent isn't a good idea. Graham Dot Zip is a comedian whose YouTube channel has blown up recently thanks to videos of him demonstrating the absurdity of AI bots used to conduct early-stage interviews with job candidates. AI interviewers have become quite the phenomenon in recent months, and not one that job seekers are fond of, with plenty of videos and social media posts documenting hate for them.
于是格雷厄姆登场，开始恶搞各种面试机器人。一些视频在过去几周内获得了近200万次观看。在其中一个视频里，他对每个问题都用无意义的回答进行回应，而AI则像真的在给出合理回答一样鹦鹉学舌。在另一个视频中，他让机器人滔滔不绝地说出不必要的客套话和感谢，而两人则来回交谈，试图保持专业礼貌。看着AI试图应对显然在恶搞它的面试者确实很有趣，但格雷厄姆最近的视频才是真正值得一提的。
Enter Graham and his trolling of various interview bots. Some videos have garnered nearly 2 million views in the past few weeks. In one, he answers every question with gibberish responses that the AI parrots as if they’re cogent responses. In another, he has the bot gushing unnecessary pleasantries and thanks as the two go back and forth trying to be professionally polite. While it’s amusing to watch an AI try to deal with interviewees who are obviously trolling them, Graham’s most recent video is what really merits a mention here.
在此情况下，格雷厄姆让他自己创建的AI代表——他让这个代表来为他处理面试——与一个据称代表某公司行事的AI面试官展开对决。维克多，格雷厄姆的“代表”，错误陈述了格雷厄姆的资历，并歪曲了他参与某个特定项目的情况。然后是关键转折：当被问及薪资期望时，维克多声称格雷厄姆愿意以每年约6万美元的薪水接受这份工作，而格雷厄姆则强烈不同意，表示他当时在考虑14万到15万美元之间的薪资。
In this instance, Graham pits his own AI representative, which he created to handle the interview for him, against an AI interviewer presented as acting on behalf of a company. Victor, Graham’s “representative,” misstates Graham’s qualifications and misrepresents his participation in a particular project. Then comes the kicker: When asked about salary expectations, Victor claims Graham would be happy to take the job for around $60,000 a year, which Graham vehemently disagrees with, saying he was looking at somewhere between $140K and $150K.
AI招聘人员拒绝将薪资提高到9万美元以上。格雷厄姆暂时离开了一下，随后两个机器人决定在没有他的情况下安排一次后续面试。当他回来时，两个机器人陷入了一个循环，反复感谢彼此的时间并说再见，看来它们无法终止通话。
The AI recruiter refuses to go above $90K. Graham steps out for a moment, and the two bots decide to schedule a follow-up interview without him. Upon his return, both are stuck in a loop thanking each other for their time and saying goodbye, seemingly without the ability to terminate the call.
虽然有趣，但这里也隐藏着一点反乌托邦式的噩梦。虽然格雷厄姆可能是在挑衅AI面试官，但他实际上已经被自己的AI机器人所困住——该机器人谈判能力差，拒绝听从他“不要撒谎谈论资历和期望薪资范围”的指示。在AI代理商业时代，这令人担忧，因为AI公司正试图打造能为我们购物并进行其他商业交易的AI代理。谁能说这些机器人在谈判好价格方面比维克多更强呢？
While funny, there’s a bit of a dystopian nightmare to be found here, too. Although Graham may be trolling the AI interviewer, he's still been essentially cornered by his own AI bot’s poor ability to negotiate and refusal to listen to his instructions not to lie about his qualifications and his desired salary range. It’s a worrying prospect in the era of agentic commerce, where AI companies are trying to create AI agents that can shop for us and undertake other commercial exchanges. Who’s to say those bots are any better at negotiating for a good deal than Victor?
如果从越来越多的人们挑衅AI面试机器人、让它们以为自己快死了、耗尽宝贵AI代币的视频中能得到任何启示，那就是：AI擅长的事情和不擅长的事情依然存在。戴上人类面具、与人类求职者交谈，坦率地说，这不是它们该做的事情——至少求职者这么认为，尽管AI人力资源部门看来正在成为常态。鉴于维克多的谈判能力如此糟糕，它们大概也不该参与任何试图为消费者争取好交易的事情。
If there’s anything to be learned from a growing number of videos of people trolling AI interview bots, convincing them they’re dying, and burning through those valuable AI tokens, it’s that, yet again, there are things AI is good for and things it’s not. Putting on a human mask and talking to human job candidates, frankly, isn’t something they ought to be doing - job seekers don’t think so, at least, despite AI HR departments seemingly becoming the norm. Given Victor’s poor negotiation skills, they probably shouldn’t be engaged in anything to do with trying to get consumers a deal, either.
随着AI地狱般的景象在我们周围蔓延，似乎没有任何限制来约束推销机器人的公司会尝试售卖什么，我们似乎只能笑笑。幸运的是，外面有很多笨拙的机器人随时准备让AI服务提供商以及使用其服务的公司成为无数网络笑话的靶子。®
As the AI hellscape grows around us, with seemingly no limit to what a bot-pushing firm will try to sell, all we can do is laugh, it seems. Luckily, there are plenty of dumb bots out there ready to make AI providers and the companies using their services the butt of many an internet joke. ®