What a fucking clown
Whether World ID’s system catches on and succeeds will come down to trust.
That’s ironic, because the core concept is that you don’t need to “trust” Tools for Humanity with your personal data. You can read the company’s white papers and understand exactly how it all works.
But humans aren’t wired to think that way. Most people will want to trust the company scanning their irises. That’s a challenge for a company that takes a lot of licks in the press for its futuristic introduction of blockchain into the real world in the form of the metallic orbs.
Oh, I understand how it works, I understand I don’t want that shit going in and out of some public ledger on their stack.
I understand I don’t want to boost another crypto pyramid scheme.
I understand this is associated with Sam Altman, I understand I work with open weights models and (for Lemmy) am a gigantic ML enthusiast, and I understand that, even then, I would not wish one bit of crap that con man sells on my worst enemy, and will shout it to anyone who will listen.
Oh hell no
If you haven’t ditched Reddit already, do it!
has it always been a centric pisshole or did it gradually turned into one?
DO IT.
People should have dumped Reddit already. Force more users off!
So when you say something they don’t like they literally ban your eyeballs from the site?
Or send their goon squad to your IRL location to beat some sense into you
*bong rip* you know what would make bots
vanish* tolerable? eye-devouring shitcoin-based authentication scheme (illegal in EU)* the other people’s bots, that is
That thumbnail…
hence why they also banned facebook as a word, because fb also use facial recognition to verify users. they went backwards in censorship and did RS level censorship.
