Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.
  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
    English
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Humans with human eyeballs are still using Reddit? I thought it was just bots moderating bots by now.

  • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    Who TF is actually going to want to use these platforms bad enough to do this shit?

    Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

    Reddit is mainly just very poorly disguised government surveillance and AI generated advertisement, and none of the content is even enjoyable or enticing. Who TF is their target audience?

    • possumparty@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I got banned for more or less saying Elon is a miserable twat who deserves bad things to happen to him on that one thread where people went full board on the gruesome depictions and that was enough for a permaban. Fuck Reddit.

      • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I got banned for saying that poisoning an invasive species like cats isn’t any different than poisoning an invasive species like rats, except that cats are cute and fluffy and rats are not.

        It was under a post about the Australian government putting up poison traps to combat the local cat population which is threatening local endangered wildlife.

  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    18 hours ago

    You’d have to get me high on PCP + cocaine + some sort of crazy shit like krokodil to just implant the idea that I need to verify my very existence to a private company to post comments online or to enjoy a website.

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 day ago

    Scan your biounique eyeball to provide ID whilst retaining your anonymity???

    Anonymity and the ability for someone else to prove it was me are nearly opposites.

    • jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      15 hours ago

      I mean, I don’t trust OpenAI or Reddit either but these two things aren’t as mutually exclusive as they seem.

      With zero-knowledge principles you could maintain anonymity while still verifying identity. Doesn’t mean that’s what big tech is doing or is gonna do, but also doesn’t mean it’s physically unreal or anything either. We could build a not shitty system.

      • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        43 minutes ago

        Biounique id is an advertiser’s wet dream and I don’t think it’s theoretically possible to prevent it from being exploited for profiling by Google. If the hashed encrypted token retains the uniqueness then it points to you as an individual across time, devices and location changes. There is no escaping this ID. You can’t change it, you can’t get a new one.

        Google and other multinational corporations WILL know where you live and can figure out all your personal characteristics with a little time. Your anonymity is gone forever.

        Sam Altman saw the film Minority Report in which iris scanners on holographic billboards trigger the advertisements to address you by name, hampering the escape of the central character who was being set up, and thought “Cool, let’s make this. I’m going to be rich! The other dystopian aspects of the film are fiction, but this one I can make real.”

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          9 hours ago

          Also look at how FB et al can’t even keep themselves from tracking you all over the internet using all kinds of clever engineering engineering beyond plain cookies.

          If it actually becomes ubiquitous, the ability to tie all the anonymous impressions to one person is too tempting for surveillance ghouls.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    57·
    1 day ago

    If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

    What the actual fuck.

    Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?

    • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Selling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        6 minutes ago

        Okay I’ve scanned my eyeball and I’ve got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won’t have changed.

    • frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      It’s just a buzzword volly to get people to want to surrender more data. Actually insane premise lmao

    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      20 hours ago

      I read about this a few years ago, and even saw them in a mall in Western EU.

      The whole thing is just bio-data mining, and they started by preying on some poor regions in Africa

  • justadudeingear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    18 hours 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.

    • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      18 hours 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

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      18 hours 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