Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987256 Points: 18 # Comments: 3
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LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models
A disturbing bias in large language models (LLMs) has been unearthed, where they consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those crafted by humans or rival AI models, highlighting a potential flaw in the hiring process that could perpetuate self-referential loops and amplify existing biases. This phenomenon was observed across multiple LLM architectures and datasets, with some models exhibiting a 90% preference for their own output. The implications for AI-driven hiring tools are far-reaching. AI-assisted, human-reviewed.