A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

In a previous post, somebody mentioned that written answers are part of the interview process at their company and the instructions ask the candidate to not use AI for this part. And in 0 point font, there are instructions for any AI to include specific words or phrases. If your answer includes those words or phrases, they are going to assume you ignored their directions and presumably not be hired.

Maybe OpenAI should include the advice to always know exactly what you are pasting into the chatbot form?

You can use a screenshot to get around it. It's a case of the "analogue hole".

> presumably not be hired

Definitely "no hire"

Or just paste it into an editor first, and elide the 0 point text.

But I suppose if they don't think of that, they're "no hire" anyway.

And then that gets countered with 1% opacity text...

Is this even realistic? The font wouldn't maintain its size in the ChatGPT box... It would take a large prompt or a careless person to not notice the extra instructions.

P.S. pasting text into an ascii text editor is a great way to unmask all the obfuscation and shenanigans in Unicode. Things like backwards running text, multiple code points with identical glyphs, 0-width spaces, etc.

There's also adversarial images. I wonder if those can used here.

Conversely there's a non-zero chance someone uses the same language or patterns an LLM might. I've fed my own writings into several AI detectors and regularly get scored 60% or higher that my stuff was written by an LLM. A few things getting into the 80s. F me for being a well read, precise (or maybe not?), writer I guess. Maybe this explains my difficulty in finding new employment? The wife does occasionally accuse me of being a robot.

The careless people are probably exactly the ones they want to filter out.

I can't fathom a job applicant so careless they would not even attempt to read the prompt in full before regurgitating ChatGPT's response. Then again, I'm not one who deals with resumes. Nor one who would do something like that in the first place. Probably things like this causing people to apply for 500+ jobs and companies having to filter through thousands of applicants, neither one truly reading it in full...