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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
#72The axiom here is that both AI and the human internet are worth keeping. Tech like World ID is scary. Agreed. What is the better alternative? AI isn't going away and a human internet is worth preserving.
I imagine that in the future we will have less trust in strangers on the Internet and whether they're human or AI will be a side issue. Knowing that a correspondent is human will be neither necessary nor sufficient.
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
#73Sama 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.
iphone 18: now with ball and/or pussy scanner!
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
#74Seems like a good point to remind that capitalism doesn't need democracy to function or survive
They have no problem helping to strangle democracy to death
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
#75Is there any technical solution to these centralized ID authorities doing sybil attacks and minting identities out of nothing to manufacture consensus on supposedly "human verified" sites?
An effective naive defense would be requiring ID to be verified with multiple sites
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
#76KYC to breathe.
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
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trying? apart from a few cryptocolonies, it's already widely despised.
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
#78World 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...
You'd be silly not to, if you think about it. There's demand for ID verification, and don't you want to be the one with copies of everyone's documents, instead of the other guy? Do you want to make the money, or do you want Peter Thiel to make the money?
The prisoner's dilemma of stupidity.
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
#79Khosla and Nilekani are to blame for this a lot more than anyone else. They got India to steamroll the iris scan in the AADHAR enrollment process and now that is used to justify every other expansion.
Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
#80Judging solely by their FAQ, this is not enough. Iris photos can be fabricated client-side, including by AI, and can be shared. So it's invasive AND worthless? Why is this getting support? You need an offline/IRL verification step and measures to prevent sharing/cloning. AND you need to never phone home revealing services you're using. Total garbage Proof of human verification powered by the Orb only involves one typ…
Calling it The Orb does not help anything but adding to the creepy factor. Also, Alex Patterson is not involved with this, and I refuse to accept it being called The Orb.