It’s hard to find a job. In today’s labor market, prospective applicants are inundated with spam job offers, filtered out by AI-powered HR bots, interviewed by large language models (LLMs), and forced to navigate job boards packed with ghost listings. If you’re a tech-savvy job seeker applying to gigs in the AI-space, no one could blame you for using an AI assistant to even the playing field. Or at least, in a stunningly dark irony, no one except AI companies themselves: this week, a sharp-eyed AI critic noticed a wild detail on job postings by Anthropic, OpenAI’s chief competitor and the creator of Claude: “While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process.” It’s hypocrisy at its finest. CEOs and managers are chomping at the bit to replace human workers with cost-cutting AI bots like Claude, which Anthropic brags can partner with HR platforms for the purpose of “revolutionizing talent evaluation with AI.” Of course, whether or not AI actually can replace workers is another story — our current generation of LLMs are prone to rambling incoherently, generating bizarre slop, breaking previously useful websites, and fabricating news reporting. But it’s also the principle of the thing. Why is it okay for Anthropic to develop AI, profit off it, hire with it, maybe even replace my job with it — but not for me to use it when I need to find…Top AI Company Anthropic Pleads With People Seeking Jobs There Not to Use AI for Job Applications