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Re:Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity fro... by soneca on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:41PM (#42835522)
There is one near home. When I passed by I saw one man stopping a couple in the street and explaining if they couldn’t go inside and give him the money.

Sort of like a beggar, but asking the couple to go inside, scan their iris then giving him the money (since it’s free money anyway). I am not sure how that would work in practice, since I just passing by. But they were paying USD50~60 , a significant amount to make the ask worth it.

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Re:Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity fro... by rightbyte on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:14PM (#42835796)
50USD? What could possibly be the value of those iris scans? I don't get it.
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Re:Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity fro... by defrost on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:26PM (#42835878)
The bulk collection contains patterns.

How much iris variation (within that population) exists, are there any repeats (or repeats below threshold), is there any correlation between (say) iris pattern categories and facial pattern categories, etc.

Someone may think these are useful questions and this may be the first of many such data collection actions about the globe.

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