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Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping (www.engadget.com)
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[โ€“] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Sam's first business was an app tracking each other with you and your friends. It sounded useless at the time but it was probably a precursor idea to surveillance capitalism.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I wanted to build something similar but included a Reddit style posting community.

    I ultimately didn't because the fear of a hostile takeover like what happened at twitter made me rethink allowing such a platform to exist.

    I know I wouldn't use any of the data to monitor users, but there's no reasonable way to stop others from abusing the system I created.

    it would be unethical to create such a system knowing it would eventually fall into some private investment firms hands.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, you could just not sell it.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago

    when a multibillion conglomerate sets their eyes on you, do you really think anything will stop them from acquiring you?

    I would rather sabotage the whole product, but what's stopping any of the devs from taking a copy and building it again for the conglomerate?

    you can't put the genie back in the bottle once you set it free.

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