AI is spamming up job applications. Jason Koebler from 404 Media writes about a person who claimed to have used a free tool, AI Hawk, to apply for 17 jobs in an hour — only stopping when they’d reached 2,843.

The tool automatically entered the person’s bio, generated résumés, wrote customized cover letters, and checked all the necessary (and literal) boxes before filing the paperwork on their behalf.

AI Hawk is one of many AI job-applying tools out there — and they’re contributing to a bizarre loop, Koebler writes, where humans have essentially been removed from the job application and hiring process. An increasing number of companies use AI software to review — and even interview — candidates. In fact, 42% of companies in a 2023 survey admitted using AI screening tools.

As Koebler writes, the effects on candidates filling out applications the old-fashioned way aren’t yet clear.