Is I is or is I ain’t?

https://www.bespacific.com/voters-run-through-trump-administration-citizenship-check/

33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check

NPR: “Tens of millions of voters have had their citizenship status and other information checked using a revamped tool offered by the Trump administration, even as many states — led by both Democrats and Republicans — are refusing or hesitating to use it because of outstanding questions about the system. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) says election officials have used the tool to check the information of more than 33 million voters — a striking portion of the American public, considering little information has been made public about the tool’s accuracy or data security. The latest update to the system, known as SAVE, took effect Aug. 15 and allows election officials to use just the last four digits of voters’ Social Security numbers — along with names and dates of birth — to check if the voters are U.S. citizens, or if they have died.”

(Related)

https://www.bespacific.com/how-do-you-prove-your-citizenship/

How Do You Prove Your Citizenship?

The Atlantic – ICE won’t say. [gift article] “In Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s telling, citizenship checks by ICE officers are as straightforward and frictionless as presenting yourself at the entrance to a Costco. Just show a membership card, and you’ll be on your merry way. Kavanaugh wrote an opinion this week, concurring with the Court’s majority, that would afford Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers broad latitude to detain and question someone based on factors such as ethnic appearance, speaking Spanish, and speaking English with an accent. The risk that nonwhite Americans will be racially profiled or subject to unlawful detention should be weighed against the brevity of an encounter with ICE, Kavanaugh wrote..

…The problem is that ICE does not say what it accepts as definitive proof of legal status. Is it a driver’s license? A green card? A folder of immigration documents? Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign has swept up U.S. citizens and permanent residents over the past several months, leaving some detained for days despite individuals presenting officers with evidence of their legal status. Kavanaugh’s depiction of an immigration check shows “a fundamental misunderstanding about verification of citizenship,” John Sandweg, an attorney who served as the top official at ICE during part of Barack Obama’s first term, told me. “There is no national database or birth registry,” Sandweg said. “There is no place for ICE to quickly check and do facial recognition. An officer’s not going to just take someone’s word for it if they have reasons to believe they’re in the country unlawfully.” It can take days or weeks for ICE or someone’s attorney to track down their birth records, Sandweg added. “The idea that it’s going to be done in a Home Depot parking lot is ludicrous…”

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.bespacific.com/gptzero/

GPTZero

What is GPTZero? [Free version is available with less components than fee based versions] “GPTZero is the first and leading AI detector that allows you to identify specific content in a document or text that has been generated by a large language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT. Founded in January 2023, GPTZero has served over 10 million users to date and works with 100+ organizations in education, hiring, publishing, legal and more. AI detectors work by looking for patterns in text that are more likely to have been written by a machine than a human. The most common factors they look for include: GPTZero uses its own proprietary model that takes hundreds of factors into consideration and boasts the highest detection accuracy in the industry…Independent benchmarks, like our partners at Penn State’s AI Research Lab, and our own large-scale testing show that GPTZero is the most accurate AI detector, with a 99% accuracy rate when spotting AI-generated text vs. human writing, a false negative rate under 2%, and a false positive rate under 1%. This means we correctly classify AI writing 99 out of 100 times, and keep misclassification of text to an absolute minimum. Unlike many competitors, GPTZero can reliably detect “mixed documents” (where human and AI writing are combined) with 96.5% accuracy rate. While no AI detector can ever truly be 100% perfect, we are committed to being a leader in responsible adoption of AI generation and AI detection technologies…”