Hacker News·4 min read·medium
The Job Board Is Lying to You
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This article exposes how some AI companies use fake job postings on platforms like LinkedIn as a 'data harvesting' tactic to collect free training data from applicants. It details how these firms trick candidates into performing assessments that are actually used to build proprietary AI models.
27% of LinkedIn job listings don't exist. AI companies like micro1, DataAnnotation, and Mercor flood job boards with vague postings as data harvesting funnels. Even traditional-looking jobs are annotation work in disguise.
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