Graduates, AI Applications, and the Logic of 'No Choice'

BBC reports that graduates are increasingly using AI to misrepresent themselves in job applications, according to research, and that some of them say their peer group has no choice. The second half is the interesting half. It is a positional argument rather than a moral one: if enough of the people you are competing against are using the same tools, restraint stops looking like integrity and starts looking like a handicap you volunteered for. That does not make the embellishment honest, and it does not make the trend and the rationale the same kind of claim — one is measured, the other is how people describe themselves. But it does move the interesting question off graduate character and onto a hiring process that now has to tell the difference between a candidate and a candidate's tooling.