Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
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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.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 07:03 zuletzt editiert vonAs explained, it's not even quite user identification, but rather verification of a unique individual. The ability to identify that an account is held by a unique person (as opposed to possibility being one of many puppet accounts) is pretty useful, particularly if it's not possible to backtrace it to an otherwise identifiable person.
Even so, the problem I see with this system is that a person has to be careful to never, ever, ever associate their unique ID with themselves, though there will be constant pressure to do so.
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Selling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 08:16 zuletzt editiert vonOkay I've scanned my eyeball and I've got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won't have changed.
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Okay I've scanned my eyeball and I've got some of their worthless cryptocurrency. What about next month, do they want me to scan my eyeball again, because I guarantee it won't have changed.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 11:53 zuletzt editiert vonIt could probably be worth it to keep an active eye on your data even if it remains roughly the same. To keep an established base line, to keep an eye out for changes in environment in specific areas, to monitor the effects of aging, to sell you shit when your eye gets damaged. Probably other evil shit too, or just the paranoid urge to surveil people for no damn reason.
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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.
(www.semafor.com)
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 12:06 zuletzt editiert vonSo how much are they paying reddit, exactly...?
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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?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 12:14 zuletzt editiert vonWho TF is their target audience?
Useful idiots
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...this isn't satire?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 12:25 zuletzt editiert vonEvery frickin day... at least once, I read a post's title and start looking around for clues that it's not real... My mind goes: "is it the onion? Is it April's fools again already? This can't be true..."
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Biounique id is an advertiser's wet dream and I don't think it's theoretically possible to prevent it from being exploited for profiling by Google. If the hashed encrypted token retains the uniqueness then it points to you as an individual across time, devices and location changes. There is no escaping this ID. You can't change it, you can't get a new one.
Google and other multinational corporations WILL know where you live and can figure out all your personal characteristics with a little time. Your anonymity is gone forever.
Sam Altman saw the film Minority Report in which iris scanners on holographic billboards trigger the advertisements to address you by name, hampering the escape of the central character who was being set up, and thought "Cool, let's make this. I'm going to be rich! The other dystopian aspects of the film are fiction, but this one I can make real."
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 14:10 zuletzt editiert vonIn theory the unique id produced by the scan could be salted by you, uniquely for each website or application, and then provided to the site. This would keep aggregators from being able to track all your activity, or at least it would if they didn't already have fingerprinting techniques that do it without the need of another unique identifier.
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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?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 15:18 zuletzt editiert vonYou severely overestimate how much the average person cares about their own privacy.
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Humans with human eyeballs are still using Reddit? I thought it was just bots moderating bots by now.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 15:37 zuletzt editiert vonhappy cake day
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You severely overestimate how much the average person cares about their own privacy.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 16:37 zuletzt editiert vonEven so, are they going to acquire, set up, and use an iris scanner just to remain anonymous on Reddit?
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Been trying to get people on Reddit to cross over to the light over here but damn it’s hard
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 16:39 zuletzt editiert vonWhy? I don't want anyone here to whom it's not self evident to that it's better here. For it to stay a better place it needs to keep better people who can make their own decisions using their brains.
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there's such a painfully obvious agenda over there with the admins. I got a 7 day ban for knocking russians and saying "slava ukraini" then I got a perm ban a week after that for posing the question "how long until an average citizen with an AR decides to deal with ICE themselves?" because apparently both times I was "inciting violence against a minority" because Russians and ICE agents, according to Reddit, are minorities
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 16:41 zuletzt editiert vonThe Russia part is still how it works in .ml.
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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.
(www.semafor.com)
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 16:42 zuletzt editiert vonI 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.
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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?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 16:53 zuletzt editiert vonFacebook sucks and has for quite some time.
In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.
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Even so, are they going to acquire, set up, and use an iris scanner just to remain anonymous on Reddit?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 20:36 zuletzt editiert vonIt’ll be in yer phone
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schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 20:37 zuletzt editiert von
don’t kink shame my dude
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don’t kink shame my dude
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:36 zuletzt editiert von -
It’ll be in yer phone
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 21:44 zuletzt editiert vonProbably someday, but the article is describing a dedicated orb device that does this.
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In theory the unique id produced by the scan could be salted by you, uniquely for each website or application, and then provided to the site. This would keep aggregators from being able to track all your activity, or at least it would if they didn't already have fingerprinting techniques that do it without the need of another unique identifier.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 00:06 zuletzt editiert von davidagain@lemmy.worldIf the biometric ID is collected and stored by someone else, not only have I lost my anonymity, I've also lost control of my identity and there's no way for me to stop that happening.
This is unequivocally bad for privacy.
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The Russia part is still how it works in .ml.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 18:10 zuletzt editiert vonI've blocked the .ml instance so I wouldn't know.
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