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[-] Xia@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago
[-] Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 32 points 1 year ago

Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned.

It claims to be creating a new global “identity and financial network”.

Altman, who founded Open AI, which built chat bot ChatGPT, says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot. He also says this could lead to everyone being paid a universal basic income but it is not clear how.

Sure, bud, hand over our biometrics for your private fiat money, for the promise of unclear-how basic income, meanwhile with your exploiting the poors and manipulating the laws to favor yourself.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This sounds like the techbro response to climate change: it will fix itself because reasons and muh tech.

[-] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

InNoVaTiOn!!

This whole WorldCoin thing sounds incredibly dystopian.

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

is incredibly dystopian *

[-] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did they find the treasure trove of coins?

Also, fuck that company

[-] Bootheal0179@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Will wearing polarized sunglasses thwart the eye scanning? This world timeline is starting to freak me out.

[-] Couplqnd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hell, in 2019 conspiracy theorists We're advocating to wear a mask to thwart facial recognition software. Now wearing a mask is being part of the world elite!

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