alt Hacker NewsI'll copy what I wrote on LinkedIn (note: I read roughly 25 pages, which is half the paper, and read it quickly)[0]:
"If I read the paper correctly, they don’t actually show that LLMs prefer resumes they generate.
Their actual method seems to be taking a human written resume, deleting the executive summary, having an LLM rewrite the executive summary based on the rest of the resume and then having another LLM rate the executive summary without the rest of the resume.
That’s likely to massively overstate any real impact, if you can even rely on it capturing a real effect.
I really wonder if I read that correctly, because I can’t come up with a justification for that study design."
[0] I couldn't help but mildly copy-edit before pasting here.
Edit: yes, the authors present a reason for their design, and an ideal version of my comment would've said that. I do not consider it much of a justification. See below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987256#47987727.
Could be an ad for 'use LLMs more'. A generic ad like this helps all in the market, but if you own 30% of LLM market share, it still helps you 30% of the time.
Now that I think of it, every other industry has an 'advocacy group', whether cheese, oil, or nutmeg. So surely there is now some sort of LLM 'consortium', and group funding studies like this just fuels the FOMO. You can be sure such groups exist, and are pummeling every government in the world thusly. But I bet they're also looking here.
After all, it's a circle. Uh-oh! HR is using LLMs, you'd better too potential employee! Then later? Uh-oh! The best employees you can hire are using LLMs, you'd better too HR!
They already FOMOed us into basically everything else, why not LLMs too?