> But with plans to bring on more than 300 fellows this year, that approach quickly became unsustainable. At the same time, the rise of ChatGPT was diluting the value of written application materials. “They were all the same,” said Cheralyn Chok, Propel’s co-founder and executive director. “Same syntax, same patterns.”

Welcome to the new cat and mouse game. Soon applicants will be beating these AI job interviews using their own AI-based virtual interview candidates delivering idealized automated answers. The candidate might not even be present but their AI video avatar will be providing perfect answers.

This article claims that processing interviews for 300 fellowship internships became “unsustainable,” but then I have to ask whether that organization is just understaffed and allocating resources poorly?

Either you are understaffed or you’re being far too selective. They are interns, throw all the applications in a lottery and pick 300 of them plus a few in a wait list to account for those who are hired that either ghost or turn out unqualified.