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Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

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Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

#31

Altman is evil to want everyone’s retina scan but he will probably get it because most people don’t care anymore.

The article describes him targeting the most vulnerable to get his first 500k users. It's not that people don't care it's that they are powerless in the fact of a well-funded adversary.

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

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Hopefully everyone who handed over their DNA to 23andMe will remember how that ended before they hand over their iris to Sam.

They haven't seen any impact yet. Nobody is rejecting them from insurance or job offers yet.

It's worse with 23andme, too, because the blast radius is all of your relatives that didn't take the test at all.

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the AI driven future we are heading into, telling the difference between AI-bot and human might become a valuable good.

Why? And how would that even work? Just because an online account is tied to a verified real human doesn't guarantee that the content isn't coming from an AI-bot.

The “person” could just be copying and pasting AI output. Eye scanning can’t stop that at all

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

#35

Why are these rich assholes so obsessed with tracking everyone? > Tools for Humanity bragged about many large partnerships that should make any privacy advocates shiver in dread: the Match Group dating apps conglomerate (Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish), Stripe, and Visa are some of them. Visa and Stripe being involved in this should indeed make everyone shiver and push back against this. Altman is not a good…

Because they have to be able to sell you the cure to the disease they created: pretty soon nearly all content online will be AI-generated, and the only way you'll be able to tell if you're talking to a human is with cryptographically-sealed boot chains, verified with remote attestation, and with this eyeball device at the end to make sure there's a human there.

In the future:

Easy Remote Job Opportunity! Pay is $1/hr. Perfect for retirees, disabled, and even kids! Requirements: have an eye ball. Duties: whatever you want, except when this device beeps, look into the camera.

Is Amazon's Mechanical Turk or whatever paying people to solve captchas still a thing?

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the AI driven future we are heading into, telling the difference between AI-bot and human might become a valuable good.

Why? And how would that even work? Just because an online account is tied to a verified real human doesn't guarantee that the content isn't coming from an AI-bot.

Maybe it would allow you to rate-limit and/or ban by the human, which is probably more effective than banning by IP address.

(Obviously Worldcoin is shady as shit, I'm not defending it.)

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

P.S. Not blaming him for this behavior, probably I would also change my mind immediately if someone offered me 7% of $300B

Do you really think everyone out there is willing to be a sell out?

Absolutely. Everyone has a price.

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

#38
Even if you 100% believe in your heart that Altman would never do anything negative with these scans that doesn't mean someone else won't if/when they get access to them. People may trusted 23andMe with their genetic data but now no one knows who will end up owning it and why the buyer believes buying the data is profitable.

https://wydaily.com/latest/regional-national/2025/05/08/23an...

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

#39

Why are these rich assholes so obsessed with tracking everyone? > Tools for Humanity bragged about many large partnerships that should make any privacy advocates shiver in dread: the Match Group dating apps conglomerate (Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish), Stripe, and Visa are some of them. Visa and Stripe being involved in this should indeed make everyone shiver and push back against this. Altman is not a good…

Because they have to be able to sell you the cure to the disease they created: pretty soon nearly all content online will be AI-generated, and the only way you'll be able to tell if you're talking to a human is with cryptographically-sealed boot chains, verified with remote attestation, and with this eyeball device at the end to make sure there's a human there.

> the only way you'll be able to tell if you're talking to a human is with...

Or the tried-and-true method of trusting only friends, friends of friends, recommendations from friends, etc.

Re: Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

#40
Something I don't understand is how is that so bad? Even today one can buy passport data, social security numbers etc on black markets leaked by government employees in most countries. Once they start using more biometric data I'm sure it will be leaked as well.

If we assume that all this information is permanently available in a public blockchain, how does it change anything for society really? I can think of security checks becoming better, what are the negative possibilities?

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