Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
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I was shocked that people I talked to didn't notice that every vertical surface in the mall had advertisements on it. Asking his new eyeballs if he needed more khakis? Did we not watch the same movie?
"My team and I are proud to share with the world something special we've been working hard on. We are finally ready to launch the Torture Nexus, inspired by the unforgettable technology in the classic scifi novel 'Don't create the Torture Nexus'"
Sort of like a beggar, but asking the couple to go inside, scan their iris then giving him the money (since it’s free money anyway). I am not sure how that would work in practice, since I just passing by. But they were paying USD50~60 , a significant amount to make the ask worth it.
How much iris variation (within that population) exists, are there any repeats (or repeats below threshold), is there any correlation between (say) iris pattern categories and facial pattern categories, etc.
Someone may think these are useful questions and this may be the first of many such data collection actions about the globe.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...
Shit, I just looked and I forgot Jordan Peele took a stab at it. During Covid. He should get a do-over.
there's also the need for a global identity controlled by a private company of country X, as we are close to have no borders worldwide (continents drift soon will merge everything into a new Pangaea, gotta be prepared)
[0] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/kiatpongsan%20no...
I think we will eventually all need to join social networks that are guaranteed to be composed of real humans, and for that we'll need a way to prove someone is a real human. I think passports/government IDs are a good enough solution for this and we don't need to be scanning people's irises.
Why discriminate?
I think ip blocks are good enough to identify a million ai accounts, no need to do eyeballs
He's selling weapons to both sides, the ai bullshit spam machine gun, and the anti spam identity verification system.
He knows what he's doing.
Funny though is that if you share this kind of stuff on Linkedin, people just look away. Indeed, it's not a place to say what you think: it's all about look nice and please anyone who's capable of giving you a job, even if it's some Big Tech dictator.
Not the objective of the post but, it still creeps me out that, we don't have on Linkedin, a space to say what what it's (undoubtly) wrong.
It's part of our daily lives as workers, to say that we have an elephant in the room, even if it's with a company and it's eerie intentions towards the humanity, just to please shareholders and keep its value in the stock market.
Sadly, in the end, people are generally more selfish than righteous.
Lots of pg tweets/comments over the years about how the thing Sam is best at, and what drives him the most, is climbing up ladders and acquiring power.
He urgently came to the previous administration along with a committee, presenting a plan for the construction of Nuclear Power Plants, focused on serving datacenters for AI, with the excuse that, if the US don't do this, China will do, and he or his team not even consulted the IAEA for this topic.
He might have a point but, still looks like the Salesperson of a Insurance company. The idea is not absurd, but the approach and the speech, seems quite cheap.
I see nothing on his talks that are genuine about solving crucial problems of the humanity...
Clear to me that he's very into keeping the costumer (investors) satisfied.
Klaatu, barada nikto.
As a happy worldcoiner I'd much rather be able to use my free will to sign up with who I like rather than having ill informed government officials try to ban transactions between informed, otherwise happy adults because why not stick your foot in other people's business?