Posted on 07/25/2023 1:35:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A cryptocurrency project described as being "dystopian" has been launched by AI entrepreneur Sam Altman.
Worldcoin gives people digital coins in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs.
In sites around the world thousands of people queued to gaze into silver orbs on day one of the project's full launch.
The BBC visited a scanning site in London where people received free crypto tokens after going through the process.
Mr Altman, the chief executive of Open AI which built chat bot ChatGPT says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot.
"Worldcoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy," Mr Altman claimed in a launch letter on the company website.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
What could possibly go wrong?
Top five of worst ideas ever kinda territory here.
Some privileged people hit life's lottery with the eyeball jackpot.
What could possibly go wrong?
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I want to say that people are idiots but some people are just naive about emerging and future technologies.
It’s not a guarantee that eye scans will be a major part of future biometric security systems, but it very well could be. Giving up your biometric data willingly now to a private entity seems mostly harmless, but in the future it could strongly aggravate your ability to prove who you are without compromise.
It seems to me that this person is trying to get a jump on biometric data because of how valuable it could be to sell in the future. He could virtually extort people over it.
Whole bunch of fools are going to jump on the “Look! It’s new and shiny! Got to have one!” bandwagon...
“scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy”
Until humans give their coins to the AI when the AI offers to do their work (or homework) for them.
Your retina is as individual as your finger prints. These sheep are being sheared of precious private security info to these guys for free. And they prolly feel just wonderful about themselves for it.
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