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US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

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Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

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Post by butchkass »

liorn wrote: post #7
shihab wrote: post #5

Let me say as an international PhD student- I have marched for the freedom of Palestinian people, talk about it, and I won’t allow this Big Brother tactic influence my decision one bit going forward. The US govt can do whatever it damn pleases.

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Yeah, the super magic big brother AI will definetely only target explicit supporters of Hamas and not anyone else, with no room for any abuse whatsoever :)

Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

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Post by duke_sam »

This is one of the many initiates where the process and details matter. What’s the due process here, can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters? Is AI just highlighting “supporting” content for human review?

Even if you support the idea in principle, the actual practical implementation should be treated with skepticism.

Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

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Post by [deleted] »

_mitterpach wrote: post #19
liorn wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Will that nuance be understood by the models? It might be understood by people, of course, but will the models take into account that some people might support Palestine because of the alleged crimes against humanity commited by the attacker, and that some people might support Palestine because they are represented by HAMAS? What will be the reasoning taken, what are the guidelines for AI to make this choice? If, as…

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Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

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Post by guappa »

duke_sam wrote: post #25

This is one of the many initiates where the process and details matter. What’s the due process here, can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters? Is AI just highlighting “supporting” content for human review? Even if you support the idea in principle, the actual practical implementation should be treated with skepticism.

I think it all boils down to: if sounds_muslim(name) → expel()

Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

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Post by pbalau »

duke_sam wrote: post #25

This is one of the many initiates where the process and details matter. What’s the due process here, can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters? Is AI just highlighting “supporting” content for human review? Even if you support the idea in principle, the actual practical implementation should be treated with skepticism.

> can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters?

Not all AIs are LLMs...

Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

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Post by dragonwriter »

liorn wrote: post #7
shihab wrote: post #5

Let me say as an international PhD student- I have marched for the freedom of Palestinian people, talk about it, and I won’t allow this Big Brother tactic influence my decision one bit going forward. The US govt can do whatever it damn pleases.

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Yes, Trump during the campaign being careful to distinguish between protests against Israeli human rights violations in Palestine vs. those actually supporting Hamas during the campaign, the specificness of the searches the Administration has used when seeking to ban "DEI" topics from government funding, and the absence of hallucination in modern AI, all combine to give a high degree of confidence that this administration deploying AI to target Hamas supporters will not hit a variety of other (especially, but probably not exclusively, pro-Palestinian) targets.
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