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Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Post by rad_gruchalski »

cozzyd wrote: post #15

He didn't name it OpenEye?

No, they called it Open Iris: https://www.toolsforhumanity.com/orb leads to https://github.com/worldcoin/open-iris. But why did they wrap the whole thing up under „worldcoin”…

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Post by hinkley »

I remember when Minority Report came out how many people got sucked in by the Tom Cruise and the Max von Sidow vibes, the Oscar-winning histrionics of the imperiled character, or the sexy special effects and completely missed the subtext around all of this. That everywhere you went, They knew who you are and what you do.

I was shocked that people I talked to didn't notice that every vertical surface in the mall had advertisements on it. Asking his new eyeballs if he needed more khakis? Did we not watch the same movie?

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Post by nostradumbasp »

avtar wrote: post #14
nostradumbasp wrote: post #8

Concerning isn't even the word. Looks like those military contracts and all that government money has really heated things up for OpenAI's goals for human civilization.

So you don’t think Sam Altruistic Altman is really just in it for helping out the human race by creating “a global identity system through scanning people's irises”…?

Thanks for calming me down. I totally forgot about how nothing absolutely horrible could be done to private citizens from generative AI implemented at a tremendous scale. I am also truly super glad we have so many tech billionaires now so openly participating in governments foreign and domestic. I was almost concerned for a moment. Have to run, I have to go ask Chat what I should eat for dinner, intimate questions about my current prescription medications leading me to worry about these things, my idea for a great start up company, and how to respond to my current boss about our financial situation. Everything is fine.

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Post by [deleted] »

luqtas wrote: post #18
avtar wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you don’t think Sam Altruistic Altman is really just in it for helping out the human race by creating “a global identity system through scanning people's irises”…?

yes? all hardware they use is free of conflict minerals, all energy consumed on their servers is clean and has no impact on fauna e flora, copyright with all the possible training data they need is already solved in a bipartisan way AND their company pays no more than 7:1 ratio [0] for CEOs vs. bottom of chain workers /s there's also the need for a global identity controlled by a private company of country X, as we a…

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Post by yapyap »

idlewords wrote: post #20

Calling his firm "Tools for Humanity" shows an unusual level of self-awareness for Altman.

pretty sure the people having their irises scanned are the “tools” and the “humanity” it’s for are the other two thousand five hundred or so billionaires on the earth

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Post by trhway »

hinkley wrote: post #23

I remember when Minority Report came out how many people got sucked in by the Tom Cruise and the Max von Sidow vibes, the Oscar-winning histrionics of the imperiled character, or the sexy special effects and completely missed the subtext around all of this. That everywhere you went, They knew who you are and what you do. I was shocked that people I talked to didn't notice that every vertical surface in the mall had a…

Well, the every wall is just for movie visuals. In reality it will be projected right onto your retina or, using neuralink, right into the visual cortex or may be even deeper than that.
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