Joe Tauke

"This is the latest reality for those searching high and low on the internet for work: not only are plenty of companies tricking you into applying, but so are the people who used to pose as Nigerian princes or strangely-incompetent tech support workers. 

"According to the FTC, there were more than five times as many fake job and 'business opportunity' scams in 2023 as there were in 2018, costing victims nearly half a billion dollars in total. 

"Technology is expanding the variety of possible con jobs with every passing year; today, with the rapid advancement and proliferation of AI-fueled deepfakes, not even video calls can provide reliable confirmation of who exactly is on the other end. 

"This is the singularity of the online job market, the point at which AI growth has become so exponential that humans can’t compete. It is a war against and between the machines, not in the streets and skies but on our desks and in our pockets. And it may kill off the very notion of finding jobs via the internet —permanently."


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