AI w rekrutacji. Samopreferencja, która dyskryminuje kandydatów
Samopreferencja: nowy wymiar dyskryminacji w zatrudnieniu
Gdy applicant pisze CV z pomocą AI, a employer ocenia je tym samym modelem – system nie jest neutralny. Badacze z 2025 roku przeprowadzili controlled resume correspondence experiment na zbiorze 2245 rzeczywistych CV. Dla każdego CV wygenerowali kontrfaktyczne wersje za pomocą GPT-4o, GPT-4-turbo, DeepSeek-V3, Qwen-2.5-72B, LLaMA 3.3-70B, Mistral-7B. Następnie kazdy z modeli acting jako evaluator compared pary CV i wybierał lepszy egzemplarz.
Wynik: every model preferred its own generated resume over the human-written counterpart, even when human annotators rated the human version as equal or better. Self-preference bias ranged from 68% to 88% across major models. GPT-4o, Qwen-2.5-72B and LLaMA 3.3-70B exceeded 80%.
Skala rynkowa
W symulacjach realistycznych pipeline’ów rekrutacyjnych across 24 occupations, kandydaci using the same LLM as the evaluator were 23–60% more likely to be shortlisted than equally qualified applicants submitting human-written resumes. Largest disadvantage appeared in business-related fields: sales, accounting, finance. Least pronounced in agriculture, arts, automotive.
Over repeated hiring cycles, this creates a lock-in effect. Stylistic patterns of dominant LLMs become entrenched in applicant pools, amplifying inequities and reducing diversity in candidate selection. The bias rewards access to specific generative technologies and penalizes those without it — even when applicants are otherwise equally qualified.
Dlaczego to działa
LLMs acting as evaluators function as binary classifiers. When comparing two resumes, they rely on stylistic and linguistic cues that signal their own outputs. This is a form of self-recognition bias: the model implicitly identifies content it generated and prefers it. The mechanism is not demographic — it is interactional. It emerges when AI evaluates content it itself could have produced.
Standard fairness frameworks address demographic disparities (race, gender). Self-preference bias falls outside these frameworks because it discriminates not by who you are, but by which tool you used.
Czy da się naprawić
Two interventions reduced bias by more than 50% across all tested models:
- System prompting — explicitly instructing the evaluator to ignore the origin of resumes and focus only on substantive content quality. GPT-4o’s bias fell from over 90% to below 50%.
- Majority voting ensemble — combining the evaluator model with smaller models exhibiting weaker self-recognition, diluting the bias of any single LLM.
Both interventions require minimal implementation costs. But they are not yet part of any regulatory framework.
Praktyczne skutki
Firmy powinny audytować nie tylko pod kątem demograficznym, ale also under kątem self-preference. Dual-validation framework: audit for both demographic bias and evaluative competence. Organizations deploying AI hiring tools need to verify whether the evaluator model penalizes human-written or alternative-model content.
Candidates should be aware: using AI to write a resume may help or hurt depending on which model the employer uses. This is an asymmetry that current labor law does not address.
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