Job searching is exhausting. You know this, since you are in this subReddit. Copilot has made me even more tired. It seems intent on prolonging my stint here among the unemployed by wasting my time and trying to make me look like an idiot. Some background: A fellow job seeker suggested I might try AI to help with drafting cover letters, or to locate jobs. My computer has Copilot on it, so I decided to try that. I have now used it twice to draft a cover letter - Never Again! And while Copilot is good at finding me cool-sounding jobs to apply to, they usually don't actually exist! I have decided that Copilot is an agent against me in the job searching. Here are some untrue things Copilot suggested I put in two cover letters: * I speak Korean. * I personally "secured bipartisan congressional support for over $5 billion in tariff relief." * I "trained and oversaw over 40 analysts in economic modeling, expense allocation, and financial ratio calculations." * I "managed stakeholder engagement across 33 states and territories, and coordinated comments on chemical, sustainability, and sanitary and phytosanitary regulations with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative." I could go on. The point is that Copilot just lies confidently about my background. I can't even use these cover letters as drafts. They're quite simply not true. And even the information-neutral parts of these draft cover letters are poorly written; they're like a bunch of corporate gobbledygook that reads as if curated from the most read posts on r/LinkedInLunatics. Not helpful, Copilot! I gave up forever on Copilot cover letters after two sad attempts. I gave Copilot a few more tries to find me jobs to apply to but, no matter how specific my prompts were, Copilot kept sharing job openings that sounded good but did not actually exist, or job postings that may have once existed but no longer do. When I would reprompt Copilot to return a new list with only active postings, or only postings announced within the last 72 hours, it would come back with even more made-up or expired job listings. I just give up. Have others had success with Copilot in their job search? I'm a bit of a luddite by nature, but I feel I need to find ways to channel AI for good, or it will eat me. But I am clearly missing something in this AI space. For now, it's back to drafting cover letters and job searching the "old fashioned" way - with a word processor and a LinkedIn account. At least I no longer use a typewriter or job search by circling want ads in the local paper.