Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping (wired.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/04/17/2115258/gazing-into-sam-altmans-orb-could-solve-ticket-scalping
- Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/gazing-into-sam-altmans-orb-now-proves-youre-human-on-tinder/
> Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they're a real human, [1]provided they've already stared into one of World's glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned . The announcement follows a pilot project for Tinder verification that World previously conducted in Japan.
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> [...] In addition to the Tinder global expansion, Tools for Humanity, the company behind World, announced a number of other consumer and enterprise partnerships on Friday at its Lift Off event in San Francisco. The startup says Tinder users who verify with their World ID will receive five free "boosts," typically a paid feature that increases the number of users who see a profile by up to 10 times for 30 minutes. The videoconferencing platform Zoom also says that users can now require other participants to verify their identity with World before joining a call. Docusign, the contract signing software, will allow users to require World's identity verification technology.
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> Tiago Sada, Tools for Humanity's chief product officer, tells WIRED the company sees major platform partnerships as key to helping World become a mainstream identity-verification technology. Sada said he's especially interested in working with social media companies in the future, and was encouraged to see that Reddit has started testing World as a solution to help users distinguish bots from real people. [...] World is also launching a tool called Concert Kit, which lets artists reserve concert tickets for verified humans, a pitch aimed squarely at the bot-driven scalping problem that critics say has plagued sites like TicketMaster. World will test the feature on the upcoming Bruno Mars World Tour featuring Anderson .Paak, who is scheduled to play a verified-humans-only show under his alias DJ Pee .Wee in San Francisco on Friday night.
"The idea that World ID is not just private, but it's one of the most private things you've ever used, that's not obvious," says Sada. "We're just not used to this kind of technology. Many people used to tape their [iPhone's sensor used to enable] Face ID when it came out, then we got used to it."
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/gazing-into-sam-altmans-orb-now-proves-youre-human-on-tinder/
Nope. (Score:3)
No.
Nope.
Absolutely not.
Go fuck yourselves.
I could probably count on my hand the number of companies that I would trust with my iris scan. OpenAI isn't one of them.
Re: (Score:2)
To be fair, its not open id but a different corporate identity that Sam Altman is also running that is behind it. So like open ai, but much much much much scummier.
Sam Altman really wants people- (Score:2)
-to gaze at his balls.
Fakeable (Score:3)
Interestingly, I was in a lab yesterday and met a PhD student whose thesis was largely about using LLMs to fake fingerprints and retinal scans.
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> “There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant-a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying. Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.”
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Yeah, I mean thats the thing AI will crack it if it has enough training data.
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I was going to suggest a Polymarket on when the Iris scan database was hacked into. I didn't realise that it's not even necessary to hack into it - just fake it - and I am only shocked that I didn't think of your student's project, already.
Apropos of nothing, I worked at a place where they manually censored all incoming emails and blocked all websites apart from a tiny whitelist. It took 6 months to get our dev software & database provider whitelisted. Anyway we had a lass working with us who knew about
who are they kidding? (Score:2)
"The idea that World ID is not just private, but it's one of the most private things you've ever used, that's not obvious,"
It's not obvious, and it's not true. More importantly, what is obvious is that NOT using World ID is MORE private than using it.
"We're just not used to this kind of technology. Many people used to tape their [iPhone's sensor used to enable] Face ID when it came out, then we got used to it."
In other words, you'll forget about the massive invasion of your privacy, even if you don't accept
Voting (Score:1)
Bets on how long it takes some Republican congressperson to suggest this is the only way we can be sure that illegals aren't voting?
Nope! (Score:2)
Just another means to control people that can be turned around and sold to governments. Getting used to it my ass. It was foisted on people without consent and those who know don't use it.