Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan

Re:Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an e... by actuallyalys on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @02:17PM (#30935598)

> Why does everyone devolve into the same 'X entity is nefarious and they are trying to build a database to sell' or for x machine learning.

Because there's many recent examples of companies building databases to sell and a lot of companies are harvesting data for machine learning? I'm sorry if I'm coming across as glib or rude, but these aren't theoretical exploits. This company has apparently collected data on hundreds of thousands of people and raised millions of dollars; I don't think they deserve a ton of benefit of the doubt.

Edit: changed "long history" to "many recent examples"

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Re:Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an e... by dylan604 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @02:46PM (#30935934)

I don't think you are sounding glib or rude. In fact, the person you replied to sounds naive to me. It's great to go through life only looking for the positives, but if you don't look out for how the thing can be gamed then it is pretty much guaranteed to be gamed.

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Re:Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an e... by actuallyalys on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @04:14PM (#30936957)

Glad to hear it! My initial reaction was quite harsh and I guess I was afraid that would bleed into my comment.

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