Reddit Looks to Get in Bed With Altman’s Creepy ‘World ID’ Orbs for User Verification

Look in the orb if you want your votes. According to a Semafor reportReddit actively plans to associate yourself with World ID, the verification system co-founded by the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, to carry out a user verification on its platform.

By the reportReddit’s potential partnership with World ID would allow users to check that they are human by looking at one of the World ID eyes scanning orbs. Once confirmed as a real person, users could continue to use Reddit without revealing anything about their identity. Currently, Reddit only verifies by e-mail, which has been insufficient to fight against the litany of entrants Robots fed by AI that floods the platform.

Gizmodo contacted Reddit and World ID for more details on the potential partnership. Reddit refused to comment. A world spokesman said: “We have nothing to share at the moment; However, we see the value of the proof of man being a key element of online experiences, including the social, and welcomes all possible opportunities to discuss this technology with potential partners. ”

For those unknown, World is somewhere between a verification system and a crypto scheme. World ID is a method to verify that a person is a human without obliging them to provide additional personal information – something that the company calls “anonymous proof of man”. He offers several verification techniques, but the most notable is his orb sweeping away. Business complaints That neither “verification data, nor iris or iris codes” are never revealed, but going through the scan allow you a global identifier, which can be used on a platform like Reddit, if it is associated with World on this company.

Somewhere in the backend of all this is a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, which you can theoretically use in large retailers, but as, can you really? Does anyone do that? The founders of World, Altman and Alex Bania, spear The cryptographic part of the program with the intention of creating a universal basic income “funded by AI”. Above all, it made local governments really crazy and was at Center for legal and regulatory surveys in the way he manages user data. It is largely targeted developing nations for its first launches, and used questionable practices along the way To bring people to demonstrate the system.

In addition, it is probably not technically illegal, but it seems quite practical that Sam Altman offers a “resolution” for a problem of which his other company, Openai, is largely responsible. It almost looks like he knew what problems he was going to cause and decided to take advantage of the two ends. It must be nice.