imdb_shenanigans

imdb_shenanigans t1_j1zsxdx wrote

You are misreading the article yourself slightly. The article says that AI needs labeled data yes and sometimes non AI work like content moderation for objectionable photos is PTSD inducing hard rote work for outsourced workers on a regular basis. If Meta outsources this to a contractor company Sama who then exploits its own local labor force to accomplish the tasks ( not even paying them regular wages), it is no different than Nike employing workers in sweat shops to build shoes or blood cobalt and diamonds.

The article discusses the politics of this. Companies hide the fact that all of these content moderation and labeling occurs by poorly paid and managed workers elsewhere and this would need better contractual oversight than just outsourcing and looking the other way which is the norm today. Your university may employ a bunch of guys on Fiverr to do it is a different issue. So here the problem is just how unethical sourcing and manufacturing is in other domains too and AI is no different. But a consumer today can ask about shoes and sweat shops, it has no clue that AI model data is another Nike shoe.

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imdb_shenanigans t1_j1go5y0 wrote

You are enjoying a dramatic moment which is fine. I have an approved i140 and "demanding" a green card like a spoiled entitled baby that I am. But strangely no one's listening. So it appears that you can be as entitled about demanding a green card but if the law says no, it's a no. When a new law comes in and says you have it, I will have it. In both scenarios why are you getting so agitated? :)

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imdb_shenanigans t1_j1gajjg wrote

Your view is quite narrow in its scope. US has dual intent immigration doctrine which allows certain categories of visas ( H1B, O, K1 fiance visa) to apply for permanent residence. US does not grant PR cards before entry to the country typically as all other western nations do, so you would have to apply it once you land within it's boundaries.

Indians form the majority of H1Bs because we are immigrating in large numbers and we have the requisite skills but the green cards are limited by country. So if an H1-B is from France, he will at least have to land here and then apply for a green card? Which means H1-B has to have dual intent? See the logic? There are plenty of temporary work visas which do not have dual intent. H1-B is not one of them.

And while you are in a country, you also may want to live like a normal human being by settling down, sending your kids to school and buying property, this is all legal and allowed by law. Indian H1-Bs live with that fear and are not "entitled" as much as you are entitled to breathe air to live.

https://citizenpath.com/dual-intent-visas/

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imdb_shenanigans t1_iu7kpia wrote

Other images? If you give me a A4 size sheet of paper and tell me these black and white dots represent 100 billion galaxies out there and I will then go "bleh, only interesting to an astronomer, unless you take an IMAX to a black hole, it ain't gonna impress me", this would indicate that when I thought I was "high and thinking", I was giving myself too much credit for the ability to think.

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