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As a journalist who has for the last seven years been working in HR and management, I have had front-row seats to the AI revolution in recruitment. Given that I was mostly hiring writers and communicators, writing and communicating were key capabilities I was on the lookout for. Before November 2022, I was able to distinguish between the capable and the not-so-capable with a cursory glance at the covering email before I had even looked at their CVs.

Almost overnight, every hiring round became an exercise in wading through AI-generated text that was squeaky clean, but often told me almost nothing about the candidate. As Arthur Goldstuck said: “AI will make bad writers average. It will also make good writers average.”