Becuse he's a freak, who the fuck scans people's eyes
Who? The US in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example.
https://www.context.news/digital-rights/why-does-the-us-stil...
Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes
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#52There's so many angles of this that feel uncomfortable to me.
ChatGPT and Open AI were released ahead of Sam's talks with regulators to allow for an organic and unregulated response to - and use of, these tools. This included producing examples of the threats to authorship and ease-of-access to sophisticated language and programming help for bad actors.
Altman now holds in his other hand an antidote to this in the form of a new technology that requires biometric data on a global scale, creates crypto noise for wealth generation for him and investors, and doesn't actually promise much beyond creating an inevitable leak of biometric data.
Altman is a long term thinker, and his decisions about Open AI were clearly contributing to the production of a landscape that was ready for WorldCoin. Given the data implications of that - it all makes me feel really uncomfortable!
This doesn't even necessarily reflect on his personal ambitions with the project - the outcomes are enough to assess it with.
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#53Everyone is upset at the eye scanning but honestly I have no idea how this could actually be exploited for evil. Like is he going to turn around and sell personal data on the world's poorest people? What would anyone do with that?
I still can't get past the fantasy economics of crypto. Bitcoin and Eth caught lightning in a bottle and fueled a wild speculative frenzy that made some people a lot of money but they have utterly failed as currencies. No one has come within 1000 miles of dethroning USD with crypto, specie or even a rival fiat. What the hell is issuing Worldcoins supposed to do for anyone?
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#54> The capture of biometric data has become common in contexts of migration, where iris-scanning is a precondition to receiving humanitarian aid. In 2019, the United Nations World Food Program partnered with the firm Palantir to optimize these operations, which today affect 160 million people in 120 countries. Haha what in the hell
They need to know if you have honest eyes
Re: Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes
#55How many body parts can be scanned for a unique fingerprint? I can see at least another five or six coins out of this idea, some pretty shocking :-)
Wikifeet on the blockchain
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#56Is it just me or does Worldcoin just seem like a massive ploy to get one's hands on a ton of biometric data? Scan your eyes and get $20 in funny money that may or may not be redeemable later. The coin will crash and burn like all the others leaving Sam with a treasure trove of biometrics data to do whatever he wants with.
I may be wrong, but isn’t Worldcoin using zero knowledge proofs in their system? It would mean that nobody has access to the private data behind them - not even WC.
Re: Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes
#57Is it just me or does Worldcoin just seem like a massive ploy to get one's hands on a ton of biometric data? Scan your eyes and get $20 in funny money that may or may not be redeemable later. The coin will crash and burn like all the others leaving Sam with a treasure trove of biometrics data to do whatever he wants with.
I may be wrong, but isn’t Worldcoin using zero knowledge proofs in their system? It would mean that nobody has access to the private data behind them - not even WC.
...if you take them at their word. Oh, and ignore the bit where they will give you extra money if you agree to let them keep your biometric data on file to "improve their algorithm".
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#58> The capture of biometric data has become common in contexts of migration, where iris-scanning is a precondition to receiving humanitarian aid. In 2019, the United Nations World Food Program partnered with the firm Palantir to optimize these operations, which today affect 160 million people in 120 countries. Haha what in the hell
> United Nations World Food Program partnered with the firm Palantir
Woah. Why in the world would they be willing to partner with Palantir? They're amongst the scummiest of scumbag companies.
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