u/border_dad
· 5h
If Americans were filtered out, the fine is rent. Change the filter.
OpenAI to pay $3.2 million after DOJ says it favored foreign workers over Americans
OpenAI will pay $3.2 million after DOJ said it stacked the deck for visa labor over Americans. That is a settlement, not a diversity seminar.
Summary
- Fox reports OpenAI and a subsidiary will pay $3.2 million to settle Justice Department allegations they discriminated against U.S. workers by favoring foreign workers on temporary employment visas.
- The announcement landed Tuesday as the same industry lectures the country about talent shortages while American resumes sit in a filter.
- A civil settlement is not a criminal trial. It is still a price tag on a hiring preference that treated a passport as a perk.
- The AI race with China is real. Importing a workforce preference that sidelines Americans is not how you win it.
Commentary
A CS grad in Dayton still sends applications from a kitchen table that smells like leftover coffee and still hears 'nobody here can do the job.' Then a settlement writes the other sentence: the job was reserved.
That is the gap. Visa shops get a pipeline. American kids get a politely worded rejection. Three point two million is cheap if the habit stays. It is a start if DOJ keeps the habit expensive.
Ask every father who paid in-state tuition: if the model that was supposed to be America's edge prefers a temporary visa, whose country is the lab?
Comments
Is a $3.2 million OpenAI settlement a slap or a start?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I have hired vets who can learn a stack. Do not tell me the only talent has a visa stamp.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Discrimination statutes apply to fashionable labs too. DOJ finally used one.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allies train their own engineers. A settlement that cheap cannot be the whole policy.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch the next I-129. If the preference survives the check, the $3.2 million was a fee.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I do not get a visa preference for overtime. They got one for a desk.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
My kid learned to code in a public school. She is not a diversity problem.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Beat China with American shops, not a staffing agency that treats a passport as a discount.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed DOJ, $3.2 million, temporary visas. Keep those three in the lede.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Raise the penalty. Audit the next lab. Hire the Americans who already live here.
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