Quote from: o48o on Today at 09:00:50 PM

Quote from: avikz on June 05, 2025, 05:00:50 PM

Worldcoin is owned by the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman. The idea is very unique but the idea of retina scam draws a lot of controversies. Also the world citizenship was not possible either.

https://time.com/6300522/worldcoin-sam-altman/

I don't think it is a very active project right now. I don't see much traction out there for Worldcoin. I may be wrong though! But I honestly don't think it will come back life ever again from its current state.

Because why would it get traction? Their iris collection violates GDPR and that alone kills the whole idea. They didn't thought the privacy issues trough and i am amazed that it went anywhere from the design phase.

I honestly don't even think that idea was unique. They just thought it would be unique because it's never been done. And only reason it's never been done because it's a horrible idea. If a government would want that data, people would be outraged, but those people would give that same data to private company for money? And i am sure that Sam Altman had a think tank and paid lawyers to look everything trough before launch. So how bad were these paid lawyers and why an earth anyone thought this was a good idea? Maybe this went trough just because of greed?

This is my theory and it seems like a conspiracy theory (maybe it is, not sure).
Sam Altman Knowingly started the world project because he knew it will result in bad PR or in better words terrible PR and these silicon valley billionaires are mostly followers of the thought no publicity is bad publicity.