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Doesn’t Sam Altman own a crypto currency company [1] that specifically collects biometric data to identify people?

Seems familiar…

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/what...

GP did mention this :)

> I've never heard of that's a 'partner' of the largest AI company and Worldcoin founder

the core tech and premise doesnt collect biometric data, but biometric data is collected for training purposes with consent and compensation. There is endless misinformation (willfully and ignorantly) around worldcoin but it is not, at its core, a biometric collection company

Collecting biometrics for training purposes is still collecting biometrics.

the original claim was "it collects biometrics to identify people" and that's just factually wrong. worldcoin in general is not about identification, in fact it's specifically designed to not identify people. its only purpose is to verify "does this private key have an association to any hash that was created after we scanned a unique set of human retinas". it cant even tell you which retinas it's associated with - the data simply doesn't exist

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