https://www.garbageday.email/p/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeballs
"Last Week, OpenAI head Sam Altman’s other dystopian project, World, launched
properly in the US. World used to be called Worldcoin and it’s a
blockchain-based verification company that asks users to scan their retinas to
get added to an authentication database called World ID. Basically, they have
like a weird orb that scans your eyeball and you get a bunch of $WLD crypto
tokens. There’s a whole universal basic income angle to this, as well, but
let’s ignore that for now.
I first saw the World retina orbs in a Lisbon train station back in 2021. I had
not really gone outside much that year because of, well, you know, and
traveling internationally for the first time in a while and being confronted
with some kind of orb that wanted to scan my eyes in exchange for
cryptocurrency was extremely disorienting. I have, admittedly, mostly ignored
the project ever since. The way World has recently rebranded itself — or, more
accurately, revealed its true purpose — has clarified some things for me,
however.
Over the weekend, Orb announced the Orb Mini. A portable device that makes
“human verification accessible.” Something I, perhaps naively, thought could
still be accomplished by using my five senses and asking someone their name."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
