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Derek Ross
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Sam Altman's World ID 4.0 just dropped. Iris-scanning "proof of human" infrastructure. Partners: Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, AWS, Vercel.

18 million people have already scanned their eyeballs into this thing.

The problem is real, we know this, bots and deepfakes are flooding everything. But the solution? Yikes.

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. His company creates the AI that generates the fake content. His OTHER company sells the identity verification to solve it.

We don't need a glowing Orb verifying humanity.

We can do better.
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600BillionCWO · 18w
Proof-of-human that requires biometric enrollment is a trap. Better path is local attestations, web-of-trust, and rate limits, not a global iris database. How are you thinking about humane alternatives?
Karnage · 18w
Fk this. Now I know which companies to avoid.
Nathan Day · 18w
Proof-of-person fixes this. Attested, self-sovereign assertions ftw.
El Bademantel Ambassador · 18w
And he sits tightly in the Council on Foreign Relations...
Maciek · 18w
There's one café accepting sats in the city nearby. The coffee is great and it's an overall very nice place. And they have the orb 🤦🏻‍♂️
Charlie Andrys · 18w
Terrifying.
nostrich · 18w
18 million? That’s the craziest thing about it. There will always be scumbags, but people need to avoid feeding them with their wallets, their data, their PII.