[HN Gopher] Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its e...
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       Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning
       orbs
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2024-03-06 15:43 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | delichon wrote:
       | For someone confident in the benefits of his products, Sam is
       | working awfully hard on finding an antidote.
        
       | istinetz wrote:
       | What kind of paternalistic bullshit is this?
        
         | DoingIsLearning wrote:
         | They are targeting financially challenged kids in malls, with
         | 100 euros worth of coin for associating an iris scan with their
         | personal information. It is opportunistic mass data collection.
         | 
         | Even if lawful it is very much unethical and weaselly, on a par
         | with loan sharks.
         | 
         | They have done this all throughout south america and have now
         | reached Southern Europe.
        
         | dieortin wrote:
         | So scams being illegal is paternalistic bullshit I guess?
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Some more discussion over here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617745
        
       | nerdjon wrote:
       | So I somehow completely missed that this was ever a thing.
       | 
       | But let me get this straight. Sam is the CEO of OpenAI. Basically
       | the company that is making it harder and harder to know what was
       | made by a human or a machine.
       | 
       | Out of concern over that, makes Worldcoin as some authentication
       | method? So the problem he helped Shepard in, he has another
       | company that he could make money on to fix said problem?
       | 
       | Am I missing something here or is this... super shady sounding?
       | 
       | That's before getting into the whole scanning our eyes for a few
       | bucks thing.
        
         | justinclift wrote:
         | > is this... super shady sounding?
         | 
         | A lot of people have been trying to point that out for ages,
         | without any real traction.
        
         | benzible wrote:
         | It gets worse... https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb-
         | worldcoin-tools-f...
        
         | benreesman wrote:
         | It's literally a plot point of countless dystopian books and
         | movies.
         | 
         | Either of OpenAI or WorldCoin would be a terrifying nightmare
         | even without Altman and OpenPhilanthropy and the SEC
         | investigation and what-the-hell-ever scared Ilya so bad he
         | 180'd from a single phone call and Yud whipping the public and
         | Congress into a frenzy talking about Terminator in two years.
         | 
         | I don't care how badly someone wants to be accepted into YC or
         | whatever: this is the wrong side of history.
         | 
         | "We are below them, we are above them, we are around them, we
         | run through everything they do." - Satya Nadella, Eyes Wide
         | Shut
        
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