> ...seems like a fair turnaround for...

Except the "them" who've been wasting applicants' time for decades is not the same as the "them" who are facing the flood of fake job seekers.

It's generally preferable that "justice" treats innocent parties and guilty parties quite differently.

I can't stress this enough. There seem to be a great desire among some to punnish totally uninvolved people for some sort of systematic problem. Imagine being a prince from Nigeria ...

Idk dude. The schadenfreude is real. If a company wants to self-immolate to chase shadows, I will happily watch.

Is it a fair turnaround for the honest folks just trying to get a job the old fashioned way, whose resumes will get drowned in the sea of AI trash?

Pretty much so. Next to impossible to actually apply to a job.

I'm very experienced, live in the US and a friendly chap who interviews well, but because of everyone is using AI (applicants, recruiters, employers), it's next to impossible to get a reply to any posting or get trough to a 'human'.