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UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Home Office scrapped a previous machine-learning visa review tool in 2020 after it was caught being insanely racist. That tool had been in place since 2015.

oh my god. just accidentally running the racism machine for 5 years during a rise in global fascism

no we won’t let you examine how the racism machine 2.0 now with LLMs works

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you tell people there is literally a racism machine for the purpose of doing racism, and if they know what the Home Office is they say "sounds about right"

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Next you're gonna tell me Ministry of Defence has a war machine?

[–] krans@mastodon.me.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@dgerard Sounds about right.

@self

[–] krans@mastodon.me.uk 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@dgerard Come to think of it, “Racism machine for the purpose of doing racism,” is a pretty good description of the Home Office.
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