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[-] artifex@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago

On the one hand, I understand the inherent limitations of pseudonymous social media and why a corporation and even end users might benefit from authoritative user identification.

On the other hand, oh hell no.

[-] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Reddit isn’t my fucking bank. They don’t need to know who I am.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Your bank doesn't even need to know who you are.

On a related note, Bank of America, if you're reading this, my name is floop @lemmy.dbzer0.com, and I would like to withdraw all the money from my account. Nonsequential bills please!

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[-] cuteness@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

They don’t even require an email when signing up. At the same time they speed run to biometrics.

What a shit show they’ve become.

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[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't think psudonyms are an issue, but verifying that a user is an actual person vs an AI chatbot is absolutely something that every popular social media platform will need to tackle at some point.

[-] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Hmm funny how Sam Altman is one of the few people responsible for creating that problem and now he's selling the solution to it

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago

It's actually low-key brilliant. Start a gold rush, when you realize the gold isn't actually there, pivot to selling shovels and keep hyping the gold rush. Fools and their money are soon parted, and there seem to be an endless supply of them.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, there's someone here who has (not even exaggerating) 15+ accounts that they just rotate thru.

It's a hassle to block them all because I still see new ones, but I'll take that over "proving myself" as a unique person with something like this.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

It's just a buzzword volly to get people to want to surrender more data. Actually insane premise lmao

[-] shani66@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 18 points 1 month ago

Lemmy gonna get crowded soon

[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I wish. I have noticed that I don’t see many Lenny endorsements anymore, I wonder if they remove those (I know my comment has been removed couple of times).

[-] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

So this guy helps create a technology that turns bots up to 11 and then he turns around to sell us a privacy invasive solution to the problem he created? What a fucking asshole.

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

But would it make you feel better to know that there’s also a crypto currency associated with it?

[-] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

I can't believe you've done this to me

[-] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't he an accelerationist? To them the more fuck ups we have the more solutions we make, which is pretty stupid of an argument in my opinion.

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago
[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Scan on deez

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

scan your eyes to use social media? don't mind if I DONT lol

[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I will happily forego any/all social media (and never look back) rather than submit to such an idiotic, intrusive, perverse, and disgusting system.

🤦‍♀️ 🙄 🤡 🖕 💩

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[-] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

I would not ponder this orb

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Create a problem

Sell the solution

[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.

[-] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Who TF is actually going to want to use these platforms bad enough to do this shit?

Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

Reddit is mainly just very poorly disguised government surveillance and AI generated advertisement, and none of the content is even enjoyable or enticing. Who TF is their target audience?

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[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This will do it. It will finally kill reddit.

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[-] dkn2038@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

they already have too much info from their users, same as facebook... years ago things like this were heavily rejected (like PIPA act when the SOPA almost happened)

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 month ago
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[-] atlien51@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I really hope this drives a ton of users to Lemmy. I love this platform but it sadly really feels like a 20% Reddit :/

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago

A lot less than 20% when it comes to specific subjects. The great thing about reddit was finding communities around just about every topic or hobby. If 100 people had a passion for something they could meet on Reddit and still have a comfy, somewhat active sub reddit.

On Lemmy you've got generic technology, generic news, generic videogames, generic pics, and almost everything else doesn't get enough traction to keep living. It's a basic population problem, the fraction of people knowing about Lemmy is just not enough to gather around shared stuff. Even those that do use Lemmy are probably not aware of every community attempt that could interest them.

I still see more communities being abandoned than new ones appearing.

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[-] Tetragrade@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

Drink verification can to continue.

[-] Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago
[-] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

2013, Quasimodo predicted this

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Pondering my deleting my reddit account again

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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Scan your biounique eyeball to provide ID whilst retaining your anonymity???

Anonymity and the ability for someone else to prove it was me are nearly opposites.

[-] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, I don't trust OpenAI or Reddit either but these two things aren't as mutually exclusive as they seem.

With zero-knowledge principles you could maintain anonymity while still verifying identity. Doesn't mean that's what big tech is doing or is gonna do, but also doesn't mean it's physically unreal or anything either. We could build a not shitty system.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Biounique id is an advertiser's wet dream and I don't think it's theoretically possible to prevent it from being exploited for profiling by Google. If the hashed encrypted token retains the uniqueness then it points to you as an individual across time, devices and location changes. There is no escaping this ID. You can't change it, you can't get a new one.

Google and other multinational corporations WILL know where you live and can figure out all your personal characteristics with a little time. Your anonymity is gone forever.

Sam Altman saw the film Minority Report in which iris scanners on holographic billboards trigger the advertisements to address you by name, hampering the escape of the central character who was being set up, and thought "Cool, let's make this. I'm going to be rich! The other dystopian aspects of the film are fiction, but this one I can make real."

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Also look at how FB et al can't even keep themselves from tracking you all over the internet using all kinds of clever engineering engineering beyond plain cookies.

If it actually becomes ubiquitous, the ability to tie all the anonymous impressions to one person is too tempting for surveillance ghouls.

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[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks Reddit for giving me yet another reason not to go back

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you post that.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Adam ruined reddit.

(Go with me on the joke, reddit was ruined long long time ago. Adam did an endorsement of Orb a few weeks back, got called out and did an apology.)

I'M STILL BLAMING CONOVER THO

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

It was so weird that he even did that.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] besselj@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Lol. The bots to humans ratio will get even bigger if that happens.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

It works: You can tell the real humans because they'll be the only ones unwilling to do this invasive bullshit. The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.

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[-] Integrate777@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

I mean, come on. We shit on redditors, but even redditors won't stand for getting their iris's scanned just to use the site..

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[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Humans with human eyeballs are still using Reddit? I thought it was just bots moderating bots by now.

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[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

These companies are really seeing how far they can get away with shit. It's mind blowing.

[-] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You'd have to get me high on PCP + cocaine + some sort of crazy shit like krokodil to just implant the idea that I need to verify my very existence to a private company to post comments online or to enjoy a website.

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