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Eyeball scanning orbs and proving you're human with Shady El Damaty
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Eyeball scanning orbs and proving you're human with Shady El Damaty

"When it came to scheduling my appointment, I started thinking about it and it felt really fricking weird."

“ 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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