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Is the idea that the companies won't quickly adapt to this? Or worse, start negatively punishing candidates with anomalies like these? First I heard about this "White on white" trick was 7 or 8 months ago. If you RAG over resumes with fixed criteria's to check, it should bypass this already. I wonder if it's the novelty of "AI" that pushed this to the front page.



I replaced all spaces with white e's in a high school paper almost twenty years ago to see if it went through plagiarism control (with the blessings of my teacher, though). It didn't raise any alarms in the system that the whole text was one big unique word, and got 0% likeness with other texts.

So the ideas are old.


White on white has been a thing for decades. Last year it was used for keyword stuffing, now it’s apparently for prompt injection.




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