{"id":933546,"date":"2026-10-15T04:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933546\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T04:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:48:21","slug":"chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933546\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Things got weird, but there’s a lesson to be learned: Don’t trust a bot to negotiate for you\n <\/p>\n

A YouTuber who\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Graham Dot Zip is a comedian whose YouTube channel<\/a> 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<\/a> that job seekers are fond of, with plenty of videos and social media posts documenting hate for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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<\/a> responses that the AI parrots as if they\u2019re cogent responses. In another<\/a>, he has the bot gushing unnecessary pleasantries and thanks as the two go back and forth trying to be professionally polite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s amusing to watch an AI try to deal with interviewees who are obviously trolling them, Graham\u2019s most recent video<\/a> is what really merits a mention here. 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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Victor, Graham\u2019s \u201crepresentative,\u201d misstates Graham\u2019s 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. The AI recruiter refuses to go above $90K.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While funny, there\u2019s 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\u2019s poor ability to negotiate and refusal to listen to his instructions not to lie about his qualifications and his desired salary range.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a worrying prospect in the era of agentic commerce<\/a>, where AI companies are trying to create AI agents that can shop for us and undertake other commercial exchanges. Who\u2019s to say those bots are any better at negotiating for a good deal than Victor?\u00a0<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s anything to be learned from a growing number of videos of people trolling<\/a> AI interview bots, convincing<\/a> them they\u2019re dying, and burning through those valuable AI tokens, it\u2019s that, yet again, there are things AI is good for and things it\u2019s not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Putting on a human mask and talking to human job candidates, frankly, isn\u2019t something they ought to be doing – job seekers don\u2019t think so<\/a>, at least, despite AI HR departments<\/a> seemingly becoming the norm. Given Victor\u2019s poor negotiation skills, they probably shouldn\u2019t be engaged in anything to do with trying to get consumers a deal, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"offbeat Things got weird, but there’s a lesson to be learned: Don’t trust a bot to negotiate for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-933546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}