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jimrob4@midwest.social to News@midwest.socialEnglish · 6 months ago

Reddit in talks to use iris-scanning to verify users

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Reddit in talks to use iris-scanning to verify users

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jimrob4@midwest.social to News@midwest.socialEnglish · 6 months ago
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Exclusive: Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
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Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.
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  • aramis87@fedia.io
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    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.

    Yeah, no thanks.

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    Just when you think that site can’t get any more enshittified

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    cue Nelson: Ha! Ha!

  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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    I welcome the next Reddit exodus

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    deleted by creator

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    Just curious, do the eyeball scans require living tissue? What if you lose an eye or get surgery like cornea replacement done?

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    Data scraping ratfucks.

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    Oh, I’m sure this will be met with open arms by all the users. After all, certainly its only purpose is to protect the children. You DO want to protect children, right?

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      I want to give them drugs and alcohol.

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    Well now I don’t feel bad about getting banned there anymore!

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    They can eat a pile of shit, I never even used a real email account to sign up

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      Lol, my accounts were before emails were required.

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    Place phone camera to eye and bink your compliance

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    Nope nope nope nope.

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    And here’s me looking twice wondering why it doesn’t say “TheOnion”

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    Is there a reddit post on this? I’d like to see what the users there think.

    Edit: I found a few posts. My favorite comment: “If they did this they would cut out 8% of users since reddit is mostly bots.”

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    This should be in c/nottheonion.

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