Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users

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• jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These companies are really seeing how far they can get away with shit. It’s mind blowing.

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is perhaps the only orb I care not to ponder.

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• SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So how much are they paying reddit, exactly…?

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• rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hope they do this, it'd make the APIopolypse look like a practice run.

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• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I heard this news a couple years ago. No chance in hell it happens

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• timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the appropriate headline should be:

  “Reddit in talks to embrace iris-scanning Orb to verify users created by man alleged by his own sister to have molested her throughout her childhood beginning at age 3.”

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• maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  whatever me and everyone else useful is banned. reddit can do whatever the fuck it wants its just a bunch of white supremacists i think.

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  • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    there’s such a painfully obvious agenda over there with the admins. I got a 7 day ban for knocking russians and saying “slava ukraini” then I got a perm ban a week after that for posing the question “how long until an average citizen with an AR decides to deal with ICE themselves?” because apparently both times I was “inciting violence against a minority” because Russians and ICE agents, according to Reddit, are minorities

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    • realitista@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Russia part is still how it works in .ml.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i have a novelty account i kept around and i just post luigi pictures whenever it gets unbanned. it has probably only been unbanned a week this year

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• dkn2038@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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)

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reddit wants to become bots talking to bots

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pondering my deleting my reddit account again

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  • PagPag@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Again? Lol just do it

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … and they’re gonna need a bone marrow sample to verify

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• Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Glad I left that shithole.

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• kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The one Orb you don’t ponder.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No human needs this, this is the march of the companies against humanity.

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• danzabia@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can see why Reddit needs to secure the user base. As not accounts proliferate they need to be able to demonstrate verified real users to their advertisers. Unfortunately for privacy, this will be widespread, in that case. I’m opting out.

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• Lanske@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Glad i left Reddit a while back

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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?

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• rumba@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ahh so they'll use this to eliminate bots and multi-account trolls right?

  right??????!!?!?

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol. That stupid Orb thing is still around?

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• ky56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And I was worried that it was the Australian Governments Digital ID shit that would be what gets in my way. You know what reddit, just do it. It would be the kick I need to completely drop reddit.

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It reminds me of the eyeballs in linqspace in Beneath a Steel Sky.

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