This bot just scans people's social media. I would assume you can just fake someone's social media account and get their visa denied. I'm sure this thing won't account for multiple people having the same name. It would also be funny to run this on Elon's account and see if he'd get denied for his thinking emoji replies to antisemites, or to run this on a fake Rubio account where he's terribly photoshoped next to Bin Laden.
US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
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#42This 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...
I’m not sure why you're being downvoted for this. the article does not state that the AI tool proposed to be used is an LLM. in all likelihood it is, but why assume?
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#43This 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.
There's no "due process" for US visa applications. The process is, possibly deliberately, kafka-esque. Edit: I wrote about my visa process here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23942466
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#44Land of the free after all
Money is the only free thing in America so an American citizen’s freedom is directly correlated with their net worth in USA dollars
Your second sentence is pretty much true everywhere, just the strength of the correlation varies. Even in places that try to be even handed the simple fact that a wealthy person has more resources makes them freer.
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#45> The effort involves AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts > We see people marching at our universities and in the streets of our country ... calling for Intifada, celebrating what Hamas has done ... Those people need to go," Rubio stated. No one want terrorist apologist in their country, but I think everyone can see how it's the cursor position that matters. Now you…
> this is only about one side
The ones in power pushing this literally fit into the other group you described, so what a surprise.
Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
#46What about those who support Russian invaders?
You mean liberation of Ukraine from nazi ?
If not, I'm afraid you're going to get your visa revoked..
Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
#47This 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()
It’s probably just the family guy skin color chart.
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#48Let 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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Most people I have seen on the news advocating for Isreal to stop their genocide have been taxed of "supporting Hamas". I do not trust this administration, or "AI" to show any discernment.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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 administr…
You should probably add an /s tag to this.
Re: US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report
#50This 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...
While true, the general principle remains important irregardless of implementation specifics.
If it were GOFAI, you can rephrase as "can people inspect the decision tree implemented by if-else blocks?"