Yes, why I stated it's "both". It's a paradoxical grey area that was never addressed. Unfortunately, it's another handshake agreement which surely would "never be abused". Until now, the convention is that someone would almost never be removed, despite it technically being allowed.

This happened under Trump 1. In 2017 USCIS officials were using discretionary powers to race people through, without breaking rules mind you. Many people got called to GC interviews months before the date they’d been given.

AFAIK it’s both. Marriage invokes an automatic “probation“ from a visa overstay. It’s the default state to avoid interfering with documents being processed in the background. The discretion comes in the event the submitted proofs have an issue, like a doctored marriage certificate.

Note in the last account the government released and even approved the spouse’s green card the moment a lawsuit was filed in a federal court. They even know what they’re doing will get instantly slapped down by a judge. They’re quite aware the 1986 law insures these people are legal.

I once read a response someone came up with for this situation: "good job, you've figured out how to argue with a fossil record."

It doesn't matter if this instance isn't sincere, prompt-jockeys have already been saying this in seriousness. People use ChatGPT all the time to make "better prompts" for them.

Of course, people who create things obviously do not only engage in it to become "famous". Plenty of people don't care about that, they create because they want to. It is telling, however, that a certain kind of person doesn't seem to understand that. They see creative work only as a commodity.

The only way to really justify that one's machine-generated fame, is equal to people who do something themselves to get attention! "The people who make stuff are just jealous that I'm smart enough to have figured out that boring middle step is unnecessary!"

But what's so weird and twisted it's kind of inspired, is that at a certain point down the chain of reasoning, one must begin arguing that people who make stuff don't really like making stuff. They hate it in fact. It's actually a good thing to remove this burden from man - having to make things.

There's always a lot of people who want to be noticed, to feel significant, without actually doing anything. It's one of the oldest forms of human hustle! This is basic bitch stuff. Generative technology merely offers such people a way to steal that valor, to farm aura at the push of a button.

Effectively all arguments and justifications around generative content boils down to disguising it's all about aura farming. "Content" on the Internet gets attention - images, video, audio. People who create original content are seen as "significant". Providers, not just anonymous consumers.