Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users

Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.

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So this guy helps create a technology that turns bots up to 11 and then he turns around to sell us a privacy invasive solution to the problem he created? What a fucking asshole.
- Isn't he an accelerationist? To them the more fuck ups we have the more solutions we make, which is pretty stupid of an argument in my opinion.
  
  I agree. We obviously need to make huge changes to how we live asap, but it seems so profoundly stupid to let a few unelected people break things without a collectively agreed upon plan in place.

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