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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ (www.wired.com)
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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 37 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I hate any company that uses or builds AI to screen out hires so, so much. Tagging metadata is OK, but filtering is just evil (am/have been a hiring manager).

The company also added that it’s instituting a bug bounty program to better catch security vulnerabilities in the future. “We do not take this matter lightly, even though it was resolved swiftly and effectively,”

I also hate it more that I can't hate them for doing the right thing.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Speak for yourself, I'm holding out hope that the universe is actually a little fair, and that the dolt responsible to creating that password, and subsequently fucking over millions of people has their testicles ruptured. Who are these idiots?

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