Terrible ad from a cynical man trying to steal your privacy.
https://blossom.primal.net/3a28369f9a5c6ee2f5c7536473b0bafb2361c77e754c298d3f40203e55c21bda.mp4
I've talked about the Orb Mini before:
Friends don't let friends get their eyeballs scanned to buy a coffee.
This portable dystopia machine is Tools for Humanity's latest effort to live up to their Orwellian name.
Connoisseurs of the AI-will-end-humanity marketing hype train of a few years ago should find plenty to appreciate in an eyeball scanner framed as as a 'helpful' tool to distinguish between AI agents & humans.
Or is it for that? Or maybe point of sale? Or nebulous 'verification?'
The only clear thing? This device starts from a point of biometric #privacy invasion.
It sure looks to me like another effort by the company Sam Altman founded to make a global data-grab.
Just say no.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/sam-altmans-world-unveils-a-mobile-verification-device/
Discussion
It even has that dystopian smiling animation, why the fuck did she had to scan his eyeballs though? Verify if she swiped the right dude on bumble?
what? why would anyone buy such a device?
The ad confirms by omission that it’s a “solution” in search of a problem.
It’s unclear from this ad why this device is even special. If governments find this tech useful they’ll find ways to push it into every phone too.