"Yes, you read that right: The Orb combines biometric surveillance and cryptocurrencies, in the form of Worldcoin, a token that has lost 90% of its value after a euphoric peak in 2024. It turns out that speculative currency backed by eyeball scans doesn’t make for a stable business model. Or not yet. Making the Orb and with it Worldcoin a feature of Reddit looks like a great way to change that. Great for Sam Altman.
Let’s be clear: The real asset in this setting is not the coin. It is your identity.
The Orb is now being pitched as the answer to AI manipulation, bot swarms, and identity fraud – all of which ironically are to a large extent the result of the kind of “innovation”, which Sam Altman helped unleash. And Reddit, the platform targeted in the Zurich study, is now in talks to integrate this system.
Even if the crypto payout is not (yet) at the center of the Reddit integration, the system behind it doesn’t change. The Orb wasn’t designed just to verify identity but to lure people into a system that rewards biometric submission with digital tokens.
And it’s irreversible: Once you’ve looked into the Orb, you can’t unlook. Your iris is scanned and converted into a code that’s encrypted and split across multiple servers. You’re told it’s anonymized. But the system can recognize you forever. Even if you delete your data, you can’t delete that. And you can’t change your iris like you change a password."
https://baurconsulting.ch/en/a-secret-ai-study-a-biometric-orb-a-new-internet-id/
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