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I don't trust a single thing that the world's most successful snake oil salesman of all time says.
I'm not sure I'd give him the #1 position. Definitely up there, but not quite at the top. Or maybe several megagrifters should share the throne.
Yeah trump beats him IMO
Scalping Sam Altman would surely sell some tickets.
Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the tech oligarchs...
I can't think of anyone I would rather give unalterable biometric information to than a group of egomaniacal sadists who have shown utter disregard for the privacy of everyone as well as the legal code.
Fuck off Sam
I’m never going to a concert again
I'm going to support local anti-authoritarian punk and hip hop until they do away with this.
Support them after as well!
(1) Offer a solution which exacerbates bot-traffic on the internet, (2) legitimize the need for verification of users as a result, (3) offer the most privacy-invasive "solution" to the "problem" imaginable: problem(1)-reaction(2)-solution(3)... every parasite's favorite paradigm :)
How about you just restrict ticket sales to 1-2 per person and require it to be tied to a name on sale which is verified on use and cannot be easily changed? That's all you need to do.
How does this achieve anything that requiring proof of purchase doesn't?
It achieves invading customer privacy.
Oh, and selling a lot of their scanner-ball hardware things. Because now anybody who ever buys tickets to any concert or any other live event will now also need to buy one of those little fuckers.
Because you can hand someone else proof of purchase. The only way to truly prevent scalping is by verifying the purchaser's identity, to ensure they cannot transfer it to anyone else. At least not without selling it through the distributor's own channels where they will then collect a fee for the privilege of providing the proprietary platform to facilitate such transactions.
I'll take the scalping, thanks.
That's just a failure of imagination. This problem was solved before the Information Age and Ticketmaster/LiveNation unsolved it.
It was never solved...
You can't solve scalping when its a core function of LiveNation's ecosystem. Scalping is the business model.
What a relief. As long as we are all tracked at all times by both government and corporations, we can finally be free of the burden of ticket scalping. It's a small price to pay for this great reward. I think we can turn our attention toward solving other oppressive plagues like Jay walking and double parking now.
Are the orbs gonna shoot a laser beam that disintegrates the CEO of Ticketmaster?
Scam Altman: "Oh no - the bots are 2 good. Gaze into my black hole pls"
Scam Altman: Literally gave birth to the bot technology.
Just like Elon's tunnels could solve traffic.
You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That's always been an option. Venues don't do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.
they should just ban it for a profit, you should be able to resell tickets for what you paid for them, plans change.
Just as long as I can get a full refund if I'm unable to attend anymore. Maybe up to an hour before or something.
None of them believe the 💩 they say to convince us to become even more surveilled, and we shouldn't, either. Point blank, these people are self-serving sociopaths, and they know the financial pain they've caused everyone has about got critical mass.
yup, they're trapped with a fanatical time bomb and theyre trying anything to make their AI work like they all dreamed, it won't happen. brute force training with a bot that doesn't truly understand what is even saying or doing was always a recipe for disaster.
More shit to do shit that can already be done with less shit if the people running the shit gave a shit.
The day I have to give some billionaire creep my biometrics to go to a show is the same day I decide I’m never going to a show again
Why shouldn't we use biometrics for security?
Because you can't change them once they are compromised. It breaks so many rules for security it isn't funny.
Why are companies/government pushing for this?
It is not about security, it is about tracking. This is the opposite of security and if we continue to allow it we will have severe consequences in our future.
Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.
I've got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off... There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.
They've only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn't work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that's true, never tried it, never will, but they didn't pursue it any further.
I always enjoy throwing out the "if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won't be able to login... That's up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware". Unfortunately they haven't forced it yet.
They thought wrong.
This dumbass idea assumes a single person and NOT a group of people are responsible for scalping tickets, when in actuality this will just drive up scalping prices.
You fucking morons.
Is there any evidence anal prints are also unique? I want to start an AI company but it stands for Anal Inspections.
Yeah... AI companies always think their technology could solve everything.
Sam Altman has so much shifty ideas
Sam's first business was an app tracking each other with you and your friends. It sounded useless at the time but it was probably a precursor idea to surveillance capitalism.
I wanted to build something similar but included a Reddit style posting community.
I ultimately didn't because the fear of a hostile takeover like what happened at twitter made me rethink allowing such a platform to exist.
I know I wouldn't use any of the data to monitor users, but there's no reasonable way to stop others from abusing the system I created.
it would be unethical to create such a system knowing it would eventually fall into some private investment firms hands.
I mean, you could just not sell it.
when a multibillion conglomerate sets their eyes on you, do you really think anything will stop them from acquiring you?
I would rather sabotage the whole product, but what's stopping any of the devs from taking a copy and building it again for the conglomerate?
you can't put the genie back in the bottle once you set it free.
Do you have to put your eye on it? Because hello pink eye everyone!
Please insert identity verification probe
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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