Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.
  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 hour 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.comEnglish
      2·
      54 minutes ago

      I mean, I don’t trust OpenAI or Reddit either but these two things are 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.

      • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        30 minutes 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, hampeting 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.”

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    33·
    4 hours 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.xyzEnglish
      20·
      4 hours ago

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

  • atlien51@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    3 hours 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 :/

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 hour ago

      It’s a solution to a problem Lemmy will soon have in that case.

      Which is bots.

      Lemmy isn’t flooded with bots and astroturfing because it’s essentially too small to matter. The audience is something like < 0.001% that of reddit.

      Once it grows the problem comes here as well, and we have no answers for it.

      It’s a shitty situation for the internet as a whole, and the only solution is verifying humans. And corporations CANNOT be trusted with that kind of access/power

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
      9·
      3 hours 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.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Wayyyyyy less than 20%.

        Even removing, incredibly liberal, bot percentages from reddit Lemmy is still < 0.001% of the audience

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      5 hours 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).

  • dkn2038@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 hours 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)

  • Dogyote@slrpnk.netEnglish
    33·
    9 hours 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.