AI-Enabled Bing - Tough on the Ethics of Ghostwriting Cover Letters

 There has been a whole industry - a thriving human one - which provides assistance with cover letters. That’s how the service – much as with personal essays for college admission – is positioned and packaged: for assistance. That gets them off the hook about the ethics of ghostwriting.

However, some such as Fiverr do offer full service. On its site is this: “I will write your professional cover letter from scratch.” The fee is $55.

Now, there's a machine version. OpenAI's ChatGPT, as everyone knows by this time, will knock out a cover letter for you. It does that without a disclaimer such as "use as a guide." 

In contrast the new AI-enabled Bing keeps out of that content niche. On Insider Huileng Tan, reports:

"I asked the new Bing — now available in a trial format — to write a cover letter for the position of social media content producer at Insider's bureau in Singapore. It flat out refused to do so. 'I'm sorry, but I cannot write a cover letter for you. That would be unethical and unfair to other applicants,’ the new Bing told me.'"

That refusal puts in front of all of us in the AI loop a very relevant ethical question: fairness.

Suppose the low-income applicants for Job XYZ haven't heard about AI employment-search resources and creates their own cover letter. Or suppose they can’t afford the fee for service. ChatGPT now bills at $30 monthly for access during peak times.

In addition, are those doing the hiring being duped by material that has been ghostwritten – that is, is does not represent the thought processes and linguistic skills of the applicants?

Obviously Bing has stepped out there, in a pioneering mode, in not crossing an ethical line in a mundane business issue such as the creation of cover letters. 

Right now that AI-enabled service is only available to a select group. When it is open for general use it might become the source of thought leadership on the perils of AI and the policing force about actual behavior. 

Speculation: Microsoft, which owns Bing, could overtake Google in influence.

 

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