Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door
Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door
The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”
The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”
Sam Altman, the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, one of the most dramatic tech companies of the modern era. An inkling of Worldcoin began in 2019 when Altman began exploring identity verification that could be used in universal basic income schemes.
He teamed up with technologist Alex Blania to turn the idea into a reality. In a world of rapidly advancing AI, they theorized, it would be important for a human to prove they were not a bot. The answer they came up with relied on individuals using iris-scanning tech to generate private tokens that would verify their identities around the world.
Worldcoin, then, is the ultimate attempt at tech solutionism: A human-grade AI world that Altman is building might also be technologically regulated by a tool that Altman has his hands in.
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ambitiouscreepyidentity-verificationbiometric data theft project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are"orb-verified”corporate property.Also, are they really trying to trademark "World"? How fucking pretentious can you get. Fuck right off.
11Someone finally eclipsed LeBron James' attempt to copyright Taco Tuesday
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4If I answer my door to a fucking orb I am shooting it
19An Orb comes around here it's gonna catch some bird shot, I tell you what.
22Dale Dribble, I mean Rusty Shackleford, warned us
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I don’t want that shit anywhere near me.
22"Huh... free orb! Honey, bring me some tinfoil!"
10Wrap it in tinfoil. Store it in a Faraday Cage. Sell it on Ebay.
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Keep your palantir
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