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This completely..

You ask a rote question and you'll get a rote answer while the interviewee is busy looking at a fixed point on the screen.

You then ask a pointed question about something they know or care about, and suddenly their face lights up, they're animated, and they are looking around.

It's a huge tell.

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You know, this makes me wonder if a viable remote interview technique, at least until real-time deepfaking gets better, would be to have people close their eyes while talking to them. For somebody who knows their stuff it'll have zero impact; for someone relying entirely on GPT, it will completely derail them.

That’s an interesting idea. Sadly I think the next AI interviewing tool to be developed in response would make you look like your eyes are closed. But in the interim period it could be an interesting way to interview. Doesn’t really help for technical interviews where they kinda need to have their eyes open, but for pre-screens maybe…

A filter could probably do it already. There are already filters to make you appear to be looking at the camera no matter where your eyes are pointing.

> For somebody who knows their stuff it'll have zero impact

I just tried and it's: hard. It feels like being ask to keep one's breath like writing something.

I need to focus too much on keeping my eyes closed, I don't have enough bandwith left to thing about anything relevant.

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