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Police raid WorldCoin cryptocurrency warehouse in Nairobi (www.capitalfm.co.ke)

submitted 1 year ago by learningduck@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

InNoVaTiOn!!