Anne Hathaway warned that she can identify ChatGPT-written job application thank you notes after hiring for a recent role. The Oscar-winning actress recalled in an interview with Hits Radio that all candidates sent thank you notes, but every single one was written by AI. “They were all the exact same thank you note,” Hathaway said, noting that when the first arrived she thought “How nice, how professional,” but subsequent notes were word-for-word identical. Her costar Meryl Streep, who also sat in on the interview, commented: “So many Anne Hathaways that you’re going to apply to—you just can’t write it yourself.” Streep added, “Nobody on that list gets that job.” The article noted that in a job market described by experts as a “hiring nightmare,” AI-written thank you notes can make candidates look uninvested, and that one young man with a master’s degree applied to thousands of positions for over six months without a single callback.