We didn't add any hoop, we just designed a honeypot.
Other people in this thread have gotten it right. This is the equivalent of a hidden HTML field which spambots would fill, but humans wouldn't see.
The rationale is not that we don't want any LLM users to be hired (which would be weird for an AI company).
The rationale is that we don't want people who use ChatGPT to do their homework for them, without even reading the result of that.
Especially since ChatGPT will happily lie in a cover letter to make your "experience" match any job posting, which is a form of fraud.
So we "poison" the job ad in a way that normal humans will simply skip over, but LLMs will clearly have a ridiculous "tell" (which you would catch if you did proofread the result).
Other people in this thread have gotten it right. This is the equivalent of a hidden HTML field which spambots would fill, but humans wouldn't see.
The rationale is not that we don't want any LLM users to be hired (which would be weird for an AI company).
The rationale is that we don't want people who use ChatGPT to do their homework for them, without even reading the result of that.
Especially since ChatGPT will happily lie in a cover letter to make your "experience" match any job posting, which is a form of fraud.
So we "poison" the job ad in a way that normal humans will simply skip over, but LLMs will clearly have a ridiculous "tell" (which you would catch if you did proofread the result).