They can scan these nuts
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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Lemmy gonna get crowded soon
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)
Pondering my deleting my reddit account again
Again? Lol just do it
Lmao No
They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.
I would not ponder this orb
Adam ruined reddit.
(Go with me on the joke, reddit was ruined long long time ago. Adam did an endorsement of Orb a few weeks back, got called out and did an apology.)
I'M STILL BLAMING CONOVER THO
It was so weird that he even did that.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you post that.
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.
But would it make you feel better to know that there’s also a crypto currency associated with it?
I can't believe you've done this to me
These companies are really seeing how far they can get away with shit. It's mind blowing.
scan your eyes to use social media? don't mind if I DONT lol
I will happily forego any/all social media (and never look back) rather than submit to such an idiotic, intrusive, perverse, and disgusting system.
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So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can't achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.
On the one hand, I understand the inherent limitations of pseudonymous social media and why a corporation and even end users might benefit from authoritative user identification.
On the other hand, oh hell no.
Exactly. Reddit isn’t my fucking bank. They don’t need to know who I am.
They don’t even require an email when signing up. At the same time they speed run to biometrics.
What a shit show they’ve become.
Your bank doesn't even need to know who you are.
On a related note, Bank of America, if you're reading this, my name is floop @lemmy.dbzer0.com, and I would like to withdraw all the money from my account. Nonsequential bills please!
Whatcha mean, they obviously need to count the wrinkles on your dirty balloon knot.
- Saved them the trouble.
I mean, there's someone here who has (not even exaggerating) 15+ accounts that they just rotate thru.
It's a hassle to block them all because I still see new ones, but I'll take that over "proving myself" as a unique person with something like this.
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I don't think psudonyms are an issue, but verifying that a user is an actual person vs an AI chatbot is absolutely something that every popular social media platform will need to tackle at some point.
Hmm funny how Sam Altman is one of the few people responsible for creating that problem and now he's selling the solution to it
It's actually low-key brilliant. Start a gold rush, when you realize the gold isn't actually there, pivot to selling shovels and keep hyping the gold rush. Fools and their money are soon parted, and there seem to be an endless supply of them.
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Why? Internet rules from the days gone by - everyone is a liar. So it shouldn't matter.
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YES, PLEASE! DO IT!!! Give people more reasons to leave!!
Yeah this sounds like final nail in the coffin idea
I mean, come on. We shit on redditors, but even redditors won't stand for getting their iris's scanned just to use the site..
I think you dropped this: /s
Tools for Humanity... 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 fuck
And you need to donate a kidney.
Hey, it's reddit, it'll be worth it to see all those ai bots talk to eachother, Right?
... and they're gonna need a bone marrow sample to verify
Lol. The bots to humans ratio will get even bigger if that happens.
It works: You can tell the real humans because they'll be the only ones unwilling to do this invasive bullshit. The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.
The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.
Like a real human eye? Is this how Skynet starts?
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According to two people familiar with the matter, World ID could soon become a way for Reddit users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous on the platform.
Reddit knowing who I am isn't okay though. Who tf trusts them?
What?! Think of the shareholder value! /s
I’m 100% for technological advancement and even AI.
They will have to rip my fucking eyes out before I let them scan them with this thing.
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That is perhaps the only orb I care not to ponder.
Just no. I use reddit because it's pseudonimous. I would never reveal my id on reddit of all places, regardless of how useful it can be.
That's a good point. Out of all the social networks, Reddit has been the least interested in getting your personal identification.
Most other social networks explicitly require you to provide a phone number, or implicitly require you to register from your home's IP address, or sometimes both.
I hope they do this, it'd make the APIopolypse look like a practice run.
I heard this news a couple years ago. No chance in hell it happens
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