The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.

He's a convenient bogey-man, and a huge asshole, but he's the not the source of this problem.

Sure but they only want the bots they approve of. That way they can charge for the privilege of allowing someone's preferred bots onto the platform.

What?! Think of the shareholder value! /s

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..

The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.

Like a real human eye? Is this how Skynet starts?

I will happily forego any/all social media (and never look back) rather than submit to such an idiotic, intrusive, perverse, and disgusting system.

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Why? Internet rules from the days gone by - everyone is a liar. So it shouldn't matter.

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

Wouldn't it just be reverse engineering what the scanner does? If you have a close enough copy of thesnanning tech couldn't you have a bot rapidly iterate eyeballs in some form till it can pass the real version a couple times and repeat with the iteration process?

Or counterfits good enough beat the scanner someone is willing to pay for, a bank might have a super good system but would all the other branches that would use something like this, would even an ATM in a bad neighbourhood has as good of a scanner as one in a higher class area if they can save some money?

I think you dropped this: /s

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

Yeah this sounds like final nail in the coffin idea

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.

37. Saved them the trouble.

These companies are really seeing how far they can get away with shit. It's mind blowing.

And you need to donate a kidney.

Hey, it's reddit, it'll be worth it to see all those ai bots talk to eachother, Right?

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

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.

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