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Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users (www.semafor.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

What the actual fuck.

Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Selling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay I've scanned my eyeball and I've got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won't have changed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It could probably be worth it to keep an active eye on your data even if it remains roughly the same. To keep an established base line, to keep an eye out for changes in environment in specific areas, to monitor the effects of aging, to sell you shit when your eye gets damaged. Probably other evil shit too, or just the paranoid urge to surveil people for no damn reason.

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