#Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Worldcoin #Biometrics #FacialRecognition: "Altman asegura que pasaporte y monedero serán imprescindibles cuando la inteligencia artificial general haya superado a la nuestra y los humanos desempleados necesitemos recibir una renta universal. “Es improbable que la paguemos nosotros”, aclaró recientemente su mánager europeo, Ricardo Macieira, “pero queremos ser la infraestructura que permita a gobiernos y entidades hacerlo”. La empresa se llama Tools for Humanity (Herramientas para la humanidad). Worldcoin opera desde una fundación registrada en las islas Caimán, un paraíso fiscal. Este diario ha intentado recabar la versión de Tools for Humanity por varios canales, sin obtener respuesta."
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"Worldcoin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s bid to sew up the market for verifying humanness by convincing enough mobile meatsacks to have their eyeballs scanned in exchanged for crypto tokens (yes, really), only started its official global rollout this week but it’s already landed on the radar of European data protection authorities.
Why should anyone feel the need to prove their humanness on the Internet? Well one reason is that by unleashing free ‘power tools’ like ChatGPT Altman’s generative AI company is leading the charge to make it harder to distinguish between bot-generated and human digital activity. But don’t worry, he’s got an eyeball-scanning orb-plus-crypto-token to sell humanity on for that!
Pop-up locations where willing guinea pigs (i.e. humans) can get some Worldcoin “digital tokens” in exchange for feeding their biometric data into its proprietary Half Life-esque orbs have sprung up in four markets in Europe so far: The U.K., France, Germany and Spain. And, surprising precisely no-one, privacy regulators in at least three of those markets are already expressing concerns and/or actively investigating WTF Worldcoin is doing with European’s sensitive personal data." https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/28/world-gdpr-concerns/