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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

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post #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.

Incorrect. Completely and utterly.

Trying to make money on selling the solution to the problem you caused (while also probably tracking literally everyone with the solution) is much worse than causing the problem and doing nothing about it.

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

#44

> 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.

To fix the internet, we had to destroy it first.

There is no way these guys don't know exactly what they are doing. It's the spam thing all over again, but on a 100x worse scale. Cue PG with an essay 'A plan for AI'. Except this time it is probably going to be game over.

I can see a real future for the likes of tailscale here: botfree networks of friends.

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

#45
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As if I needed another reason to despise this continent. Who actually wants to uphold, work for, and build these systems in our society? This is seriously the kind of nation you want to inhabit?

Half of HN. At least.

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

#49
I tried to track down the original source of the news that World ID is being adopted by Zoom and Tinder and DocuSign and it looks like it's an event they hosted on April 17th. Here's their blog post about it: https://world.org/blog/announcements/the-new-world-id-and-th...

There were more logos on that title slide: Tinder, DocuSign, Zoom, Okta, Vercel, Shopify, Browsnerbase, AWS, exa, RAZER, Coinbase, VanEck

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

#50

Sama can ID my balls.

I’d guess that the pattern of ball wrinkles are quite unique. It could have applications for secure login - you’d could hold your balls above your phone camera or lay them onto a USB attached mini-scanner for authentication.
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