EYES WIDE OPEN: WORLD ID’S BIG BET ON YOUR IRIS
Sam Altman, the brains behind ChatGPT, thinks scanning your eyeballs is the future.
His new project, World ID, snaps a fancy photo of your iris to prove you’re not a bot.
This eye-scan data gets turned into a special code and stored on a blockchain.
No names, no selfies, just a unique digital mark.
You even get forty bucks in Worldcoin crypto for playing along.
World ID is spreading fast.
Already in 6 big U.S. cities and aiming to reach 180 million Americans by year’s end, it’s one giant step for digital identity.
Or one giant leap into the unknown.
Privacy watchdogs are not impressed.
Countries like Spain and Argentina have already slammed the brakes, worried about creepy eye data collection.
Critics find it rather rich that Altman is also the guy who unleashed the AI bots that this project tries to beat.
Sure, stopping bots sounds like a win.
But trusting a global database with your eyeball print forever? That’s the real gamble.
Source: FOX
🇺🇸 SAM ALTMAN'S ORB MINI LAUNCHES TO PROVE YOU’RE HUMAN IN AN AI WORLD
Worldcoin’s crew just launched the “Orb Mini”—a portable device that scans your eyeball and spits out a blockchain ID to prove you’re human.
Built by Tools for Humanity (yes, the same folks behind the original Orb), this thing looks like a phone but exists purely to verify you aren’t AI.
With 12M people already scanned worldwide, they’re now rolling into U.S. cities like Austin and Miami.
Whether it’s creepy or clever, biometric ID is officially going mobile.
Source: TechCrunch
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