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U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#21

his mark of the beast attempt # ?

Weirdly, peter thiel is going on tour right now promoting the idea that the antichrist is coming and may be an organization or social movement rather than a person. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I only skimmed the articles about it

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#22

so we're trusting the guy who created tech to make it easier for bots to exist on the internet to then sell us the solution to fix the problem he made worse?

I guess it would be worse if he was doing nothing to address the problem.

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#23
>On April 16, it published a blueprint for how companies can grow their revenue with its digital ID.

that "blueprint", hilariously enough, starts with the title "How AI is eroding the foundations of the internet".

from a sam altman company. im afraid if i rolled my eyes any harder that they would spin out of their sockets.

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#24

I suspect that if we don't want to live in this future, we need some major open source tech leadership around making something like an anonymous version of this I know, not exactly an easy problem to solve, but big tech or government is going to do it if we can't find better solutions first

Google and Apple already developed private age verification.

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#25
post #18

I'm not even remotely-interested unless there is legislation that creates civil-liability and criminal penalties for abuse or mishandling of the data. Also, companies shouldn't be able to refuse service just because the prospective customer's biometric data was leaked/stolen/duplicated in the past. I mean, when you think about it that's some Twilight Zone or Black Mirror territory.

Since when has that stopped companies from mishandling of data? :)

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#26

I think we need less technology. Can we have a de-tech movement? Life-saving tech is fine but enough is enough with software, AI, surveillance, etc. It's too much. It's been too much for the past twenty years or so.

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Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#27

I think we need less technology. Can we have a de-tech movement? Life-saving tech is fine but enough is enough with software, AI, surveillance, etc. It's too much. It's been too much for the past twenty years or so.

The Butlerian Jihad looms

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#28

I think we need less technology. Can we have a de-tech movement? Life-saving tech is fine but enough is enough with software, AI, surveillance, etc. It's too much. It's been too much for the past twenty years or so.

The Butlerian Jihad looms

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Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

#30

World id, meta verifier, how many other military funded establishments are pushing to require mass surveillance of everyone doing anything. Meanwhile their bots run rampant all over the Internet without any concern for anyone else's infrastructure, copyright, or ip. The irony...

so take down the internet. or take down their company. or just stop using the internet

will posting this on forums that are run by these same people actually be able to drive change?

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