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In-depth story about my favourite dystopian app, Sam Altman's Worldcoin and its iris-scanning Orb. The company is desperately trying to spin it as an open source benefit to humanity, but oh boy... you just can't trust ANY company, let alone a crypto one. The last line is a doozy, a quote from one of the Worldcoin execs: "It’s about execution now and explaining to people that, actually, we’re not going to steal your soul."

Indeed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-12/how-worldcoin-is-building-digital-ids-to-combat-the-ai-apocalypse (search for it on archive.fo)