So let me get this straight.. This is Altman's solution to Altman's problem..

this guy wants or wanted to create an Ai that can act, think and sound like a human (by stealing peoples work), and then he went (secretly mind you) to create this Worldcoin system for us to tell who's an Ai and who's a real human online, and guess how he's going to do it? browser cookies! nope.. 👉 Biometric data 👈

Prove you are a unique human, without revealing anything else about you

Yeah, right.. How do I do that? well find the nearest orb, that's all

Ok, ok.. But why would people want to give us their eyeballs? Aaahaa so we can pay them with our worthless token that will never be truly decentralized, because we control all the nodes

World Network is centered around a unique privacy-preserving global identity credential, known as World ID (“World ID”), and a new crypto asset, known as the Worldcoin token (“WLD”). Where available, owners of WLD tokens will be able to participate in guiding the governance of the Protocol and will contribute to the Project alongside a global community of developers, economists, technologists, and other interested individuals. The WLD token may also function as a means of making payments.

That's it.. this guy wants to build a surveillance blockchain, phew.. these tech billionaires man.. I tell you, they're really the real life villains..

People if you want to use a blockchain that you can actually benefit from, use ones that are proven to work and are battle tested, truly decentralized, and transparent, Bitcoin and Monero.. maybe Zcash.. And maybe run your own Monero Node (it's only 80Gb) out of spite like I do

Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, and yes, it is just as crazy as it sounds. I would not touch this with a 1 million foot pole. Stay far far far away. If you want a blockchain currency, buy Monero.

Is this thing as sketchy as it seems?

Sam Altman and Andreessen Horowitz involvement should be all you need to know. But the reality is probably less dystopian than some people make it out to be. World to me just seems to be Altman trying to sell a solution to the problem that he's trying to create with OpenAI (chatbots that are indistinguishable from humans).

They lost me at Iris biometrics.

If this is the eye-scanning orb bullshit, stay far, far away.

Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)

Hello, World!