> ICE agents “don’t deserve to be hunted online by activists using AI,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.)
How can I assist if I believe they do deserve to be hunted online? It improves my mental health to use the tools of the surveillance state against its agents.
More and more it seems that a country is fundamentally not allowed to say "no" to immigration. Even the ~1 million/year for the last 25 years [1] that the US has admitted legally is deemed too restrictive, so those who try to enforce immigration law are attacked. No position short of "America belongs to everyone" is permitted, no matter what voters says.
I wonder if experts will emerge to call this inciting "stochastic terrorism" [2]. I won't be holding my breath.
there's law enforcement that follows due process, and there's "law enforcement" that doesn't
the former is the regular police (when they're doing their job right), the latter is the Gestapo and ICE
the problem isn't so much immigration laws; it's 1) the way ICE is enforcing them, and 2) the fact that a non-trivial percentage of US businesses actually depend on that illegal immigration (which is why after political pressure, Trump made "exceptions" for certain businesses--not exceptions to the law, exceptions to its enforcement)
>Skinner acknowledged that the technology is flawed, and he said that about that 60 percent of the AI-generated results and facial recognition searches lead to wrong matches on social media profiles. He says a group of volunteers verifies them through another process before posting any names online.
This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. 60 percent of the output is garbage and leads to an innocent person being "identified" but don't worry the unpaid volunteers have a "process" to make sure nobody innocent is targeted!
I doubt those defending ICE's actions (including wearing masks) have ever lived in a country with an often unaccountable and secret (i.e., unidentified) police force, i.e., Stasi, SAVAK, Gestapo, KGB, DINA. If they have, they would understand just how fundamentally opposed to democratic societies organizations that operate like ICE are -- they're very much a sign of authoritarianism / totalitarianism.
Their tactics are not "enforcing immigration law" -- we have non-secret and accountable police forces whose job is to enforce the law. ICE is more like the vigilante groups enforcing Jim Crow laws in the South back in the day.
As more and more social media data is fed into the AI machine, it will be impossible for any masked individual to remain anonymous. A snippet of voice, an unusual movement, your gait, or a piece of flair will give you away with 99% certainty.
Agents doing evil, blatantly illegal shit should keep that in mind.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 37.4 ms ] threadHow can I assist if I believe they do deserve to be hunted online? It improves my mental health to use the tools of the surveillance state against its agents.
Their volunteer email is icelistvol [at] pm.me
I wonder if experts will emerge to call this inciting "stochastic terrorism" [2]. I won't be holding my breath.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
there's law enforcement that follows due process, and there's "law enforcement" that doesn't
the former is the regular police (when they're doing their job right), the latter is the Gestapo and ICE
the problem isn't so much immigration laws; it's 1) the way ICE is enforcing them, and 2) the fact that a non-trivial percentage of US businesses actually depend on that illegal immigration (which is why after political pressure, Trump made "exceptions" for certain businesses--not exceptions to the law, exceptions to its enforcement)
Ha, the hypocrisy.
This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. 60 percent of the output is garbage and leads to an innocent person being "identified" but don't worry the unpaid volunteers have a "process" to make sure nobody innocent is targeted!
Their tactics are not "enforcing immigration law" -- we have non-secret and accountable police forces whose job is to enforce the law. ICE is more like the vigilante groups enforcing Jim Crow laws in the South back in the day.
Agents doing evil, blatantly illegal shit should keep that in mind.