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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 83 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Are they just emailing these to everyone in the global address list?

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 hours ago

Mango Mussolini's dream team is using "AI" to do all their decisions and data processing, and they're too fucking dumb (and don't give a shit) to realize that it constantly makes mistakes and can't be trusted for shit. Their jobs are "easier" because of it, the outcomes don't affect them anyway since they live in an alternate reality bubble, and they can claim they're "doing something" while really just having taxpayers pay them to golf.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The "exotic" names are probably getting auto-blasted. It feels exactly that stupid.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago

Well obviously those specific examples are probably radical left antifa terrorists (/s)

[–] match@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

doge probably whipped up a garbage AI tool in a hackathon weekend

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 hours ago

You give them too much credit. More like, type to an LLM:

"Hey ai, here is an mbox file full of e-mail from people. Find all the names and make a table of names and email addresses." uploads file

"Hey muskrat, we got the list of people to deport!"

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Judging by how the people in power seem to like badly implementing ideas from cautionary sci-fi books, here's my guess:

They're probably using a point system. If you have an immigration hearing, a million points. If they find your name on a visa (not even necessarily you), that's 20 points. If they find your name on an arrest record, that's 10 points. If they find your name on any immigration court records, that's 10 points

Then they sort the list, send ICE after people with the highest scores, and are slowly emailing their way down the list to anyone with like 50 points or more

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

an idiotic point system was reported by NYT, so, confirmed.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

works at a nonprofit assisting immigrants in court

and apparently, if you're an attorney or staffer at a non-profit that assists migrants and immigrants in court.. ten bazillion trillion mega points.

this guy isn't the only one being targeted.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I know the logical sequence of events is probably the attorney being an informed contact as a representative having their details caught up in a crude, talentless scrape and the axiom about incompetence over malice but i realllly think this is a case of ¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

An immigration lawyer in MA also was told to leave the country. She assumed it was a mistake meant for one of her clients.

It might have been a mistake, but it was for her.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] takeda@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Off topic, is there a way on Lemmy to link to a specific comment/post so I could still remain on my instance?

For exempt this opens web browser to lemmy.world, I'm on lemmy.ee and would still want to stay within the app on my own instance.

Edit: this time on topic. Yeah, they very likely are using LLM for decisions. Same thing happened with those ridiculous tariffs. I can't believe they are this dumb to believe LLM is anything more than a fancy chat bot and isn't actually thinking.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

This is client dependent. I use Thunder, the sharing option lets you choose between the community's instance for the share link, or the instance hosting your account.

When opening links to other instances I believe you can use search on your own instance, paste the URL to open it on your local instance

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I also use thunder, and that page just opens a browser for me.

What I was hoping is that there would be some kind of syntax where I could reference comment or post, and Lemmy server would automatically translate that to the local URL.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 points 7 minutes ago

To do that you must first make sure it's opened via your instance so it has it cached.