Ask HN: People are cheating in Job Interviews using my app. Am I in trouble?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35150446

by m0dE • 3 years ago

7 15 3 years ago

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Hello HN. I built a chatGPT-based app that can transcribe the interviewer's voice and prompts a response when it's the interviewee's turn to speak. Is this illegal?

joshxyz• 3 years ago

it isnt. time to make thqt cash register ring lol.

badpun• 3 years ago

I don't think so. Just to be sure, spam the app with legal messages saying that this app should absolutely never ever be used to perform fraud during an actual interview.

gostsamo2• 3 years ago

Totally legal, it is the candidate who can be in trouble, but the tool maker cannot be liable unless the tool's purpose cannot be anything but illegal use.

AnimalMuppet• 3 years ago

I'm not sure I see how this could be illegal. It has a perfectly valid use - interviewees who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Maybe I'm naive or don't have a good enough mind for cheating, but I'm not sure I understand how you cheat at an interview with this. Because you can read the interviewer's question? How is that cheating?

gostsamo2• 3 years ago

Redirect the question to chat gpt, read the response aloud. I think that this was mentioned initially in the post but might be in error. Chat gpt is not necessary, as far as someone else is giving the answers.

gardenhedge• 3 years ago

There must be a better use case for an app like that!

hova7517• 3 years ago

Send the link

m0dE4• 3 years ago

chatsuggest.com

tetek• 3 years ago

haha I see what you did there. Nice way to validate product idea

m0dE4• 3 years ago

nono I actually have built this and people are using it :)

aynyc• 3 years ago

IANAL, but isn't that considered recording? If so, does two-party consent law come into play?

giaour• 3 years ago

There seem like lots of legal uses for that app. "Customer service rep support" is a non-shady use case and in all honesty is probably far more monetizable than helping people cheat at interviews.

b20000• 3 years ago

you are a hero. if enough people use it hopefully it will end this bullshit coding interviews and those with experience will actually get hired.

m0dE4• 3 years ago

I feel exactly the same about the interviews.

m0dE4• 3 years ago

since people are asking the app is : www.chatsuggest.com

Ask HN: People are cheating in Job Interviews using my app. Am I in trouble?

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