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

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

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?

So how much are they paying reddit, exactly...?

On the one hand, I understand the inherent limitations of pseudonymous social media and why a corporation and even end users might benefit from authoritative user identification.

On the other hand, oh hell no.

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?

Thanks Reddit for giving me yet another reason not to go back

...this isn't satire?

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.

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Drink verification can to continue.

This will do it. It will finally kill reddit.

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.

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.

lol

lmao, even

I can see why Reddit needs to secure the user base. As not accounts proliferate they need to be able to demonstrate verified real users to their advertisers. Unfortunately for privacy, this will be widespread, in that case. I'm opting out.

FUCK no.

They can scan these nuts

Lemmy gonna get crowded soon

Lol. The bots to humans ratio will get even bigger if that happens.

I would not ponder this orb

Lmao No

I really hope this drives a ton of users to Lemmy. I love this platform but it sadly really feels like a 20% Reddit :/

I mean, come on. We shit on redditors, but even redditors won't stand for getting their iris's scanned just to use the site..

According to two people familiar with the matter, World ID could soon become a way for Reddit users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous on the platform.

Reddit knowing who I am isn't okay though. Who tf trusts them?

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.

YES, PLEASE! DO IT!!! Give people more reasons to leave!!

I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you post that.

They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.

That is perhaps the only orb I care not to ponder.

Adam ruined reddit.

(Go with me on the joke, reddit was ruined long long time ago. Adam did an endorsement of Orb a few weeks back, got called out and did an apology.)

I'M STILL BLAMING CONOVER THO

Just no. I use reddit because it's pseudonimous. I would never reveal my id on reddit of all places, regardless of how useful it can be.

I hope they do this, it'd make the APIopolypse look like a practice run.

they already have too much info from their users, same as facebook... years ago things like this were heavily rejected (like PIPA act when the SOPA almost happened)

Pondering my deleting my reddit account again

... and they're gonna need a bone marrow sample to verify

Glad I left that shithole.

The one Orb you don't ponder.

Glad i left Reddit a while back

And I was worried that it was the Australian Governments Digital ID shit that would be what gets in my way. You know what reddit, just do it. It would be the kick I need to completely drop reddit.

Ahh so they'll use this to eliminate bots and multi-account trolls right?

right??????!!?!?

lol. That stupid Orb thing is still around?

So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can't achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.

It reminds me of the eyeballs in linqspace in Beneath a Steel Sky.