“ I downloaded the app and I saw the juicy grant reward that they had on there, and I was like, oh yeah, 30 bucks. This is gonna be great. And then when it came to scheduling my appointment, I started thinking about it and it felt really fricking weird. I'm like, wait, what am I doing? I'm giving up a unique picture of my eyes to a company and I don't really fully understand how they work? And I'm getting paid in this token to it? There's something that feels really weird and off about this.”
On episode 2 of the Scamurai podcast, Holonym founder and CEO Shady El Damaty talks about World, digital identification and whether we should be terrified about the looming AI dystopia.
We also discuss
The problem of proving we’re human online and how it can be done
World (formerly Worldcoin) and its orbs
Eyeball harvesting and organised crime
The future of digital rights and putting humans back at the centre of tech
Links
Human.tech https://human.tech/
Worldcoin’s eyeball-scanning stations were gamed by hustlers who exploited the homeless https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/how-worldcoin-crypto-biz-in-berlin-exploded-in-fistfights/
I had my irises scanned by Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Orbs so you don’t have to https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/worldcoin-orb-eye-scans-are-an-underwhelming-experience/
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