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She Got Rejected From A Job After They Discovered Her Recommendation Letter Was A.I.!

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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She got rejected from a job after they found out her recommendation letter was written by AI! Was it justified?

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0:00.0

The Bert Show.

0:01.5

All right, Cassie, moving on here.

0:03.2

Who got rejected from a job because they found out the recommendation letter wasn't real?

0:07.1

Yeah, I'm going to tell you a story that off the bat, when you hear it, you're like, duh, of course they did.

0:11.1

But I actually think she should not have been fired from this job.

0:14.7

So I have a friend whose daughter applied for a very prestigious internship.

0:19.3

And she asked a former professor to write her a recommendation.

0:23.9

And they did.

0:24.9

And it was glowing.

0:25.7

She is a fantastic student.

0:28.3

Like cream of the crop, you would be lucky to hire her.

0:31.5

Okay?

0:32.1

So she applied.

0:32.9

She got this internship.

0:34.3

And then I don't know what it was, but one of the hiring managers just took a look at that

0:39.3

recommendation letter and was like something seems off so they ran it through an AI check like you can do

0:45.3

for like college papers and stuff to see if AI wrote it and it came back as being written by

0:50.3

AI and so they were like listen this is not a real recommendation letter. I'm sorry,

0:55.3

we cannot take this into account when hiring you. It is false. It is a lie. You can no longer

1:01.4

have this internship. And she got like, oh, but the thing is she didn't falsify the recommendation

1:05.6

letter. The professor who wrote it used AI to write the recommendation letter. And so it comes down to the fact

1:13.3

that everything in the recommendation letter, she talked to a professor and he's like, it's all

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