Police raid WorldCoin cryptocurrency warehouse in Nairobi

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• Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned.

  It claims to be creating a new global “identity and financial network”.

  Altman, who founded Open AI, which built chat bot ChatGPT, says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot. He also says this could lead to everyone being paid a universal basic income but it is not clear how.

  Sure, bud, hand over our biometrics for your private fiat money, for the promise of unclear-how basic income, meanwhile with your exploiting the poors and manipulating the laws to favor yourself.

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This sounds like the techbro response to climate change: it will fix itself because muh tech.

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    • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      InNoVaTiOn!!

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• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This whole WorldCoin thing sounds incredibly dystopian.

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  • doppelgangmember@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    is incredibly dystopian *

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• alphacyberranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did they find the treasure trove of coins?

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• Bootheal0179@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Will wearing polarized sunglasses thwart the eye scanning? This world timeline is starting to freak me out.

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  • Couplqnd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hell, in 2019 conspiracy theorists We’re advocating to wear a mask to thwart facial recognition software. Now wearing a mask is being part of the world elite!

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