OpenAI's Sam Altman announces his Worldcoin "financial and identity" network has launched

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds bizarre. Is this just a crypto wallet? What is “World ID” used for? This sounds like a scam to gather everyone’s biometric data.

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• Raisin8659@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does sound suspicious. Who would want a non-open-sourced non-platformed identity service?

  Domain Name: worldcoin.org Registry Domain ID: dbd92fd61d4a49c9a3c1181a52d6b7fe-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.registrar.amazon.com Registrar URL: registrar.amazon.com Updated Date: 2023-01-02T04:19:06Z Creation Date: 2019-08-21T14:30:42Z Registry Expiry Date: 2030-08-21T14:30:42Z

  Already 1M+ downloads for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.worldco…

  This is not a scam, but it is seriously scary shit.

  • technologyreview.com/…/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-b…

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• buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is absolutely a scam of some sort

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