Brazil prohibits Sam Altman from paying for scanning eyeballs

Sam Altman, who already has a bad start to her week as a Chinese chatbot put in doubt The launching companies are facing another headache. It is reported that one of the other start -up companies in his growing empire, World, is blocked From Brazilian authorities to pay people to scan their irises in their worldwide identity system.

The world known as the Worldcoin was the launch of Altman, which aims Create a digital identification system Relying on Iris scanning to check identity online. Because the Internet is flooded with AI-generated content, the world can help distinguish real people from bots. The irony is not lost by most who believe that Altman’s Openai is responsible for the spread of non -a -an -authentic content online. Critics said technology leaders, including Sam Altman, have a personal interest in the AI ​​threat warning, helping to increase their position in Washington to increase their influence and power.

The world is the subject of many disputes over the use of a polarizing Orb device, which is described at times as fearsome and dystopian; And for the world practice, they can enter into developing nations and paying the locals to scan their eye apples in exchange for cryptocurrency.

World has already been banned in several countries, including Spain, with the observation guard citing concerns how the company’s eyeball scanning technology collects and processes biometric data. Brazil follows in the footsteps of these countries, though with a more high -grade ban on paying for scanning. The government there also ordered tools for humanity, the Mother of the Mother of the World, to identify on its website, which is responsible for processing personal data.

World ID requires users to Scan their eyeballs Through one of their orbs, a device that captures an image of the user’s irises before receiving a unique digital identifier stored on Blockchain. Some early uses of World ID include integration with Reddit, which allows Subreddits moderators to set a sense of users who have checked their identity through the world by giving members the confidence that they are talking to actual people and no botsS Consumers can ensure that they are the only ones who can use their world identifier by scanning their face and comparing it to a scan of a face taken from the ball during registration. The scanning of the face taken from the ball is stored only locally on the user’s phone.

Some see the early behavior of the world as operational. To start the system, the company has offered money to people in regions, including Africa, to scan their eye apples. These people will participate in despair, thinking goes on, so it’s not quite a “choice”. Taking his decision, the Brazilian data protection authority stated that the provision of financial compensation “could interfere with the free expression of the will of people by influencing the decision on the provision of their biometric data.”

The world, for its part, says that its service responds to all Brazilian laws and regulations and that the authorities were misled by false information disseminated in the press and social media.

Gizmodo turned to World for comment, but did not hear back.

One of the concerns about a system like the world is that in the wrong hands, technology can be used to research people’s activities online so that everyone “be at their best behavior”, as Oracle CEO Larry Elison has said It will be one of the benefits of AI that can constantly monitor the world. When the cost of observation becomes almost free, everyone is examined. The intentions may be good, but this can go too far and lead to bad consequences such as police, who wrongly binds people with association crimes they have not committed.

The world says on it Website The fact that no personal identification information is linked to the world identifier so that the holders cannot be bound by their unique world identification number. More than 10 million scans have been completed so far, the company said in early January. It seems that a few websites are still integrating the company’s identity system and it remains to be seen if most people around the world will be open to scanning their eye apples.

Larry Elison of Oracle says “Citizens will be the best behavior” with AI monitoring system pic.twitter.com/azqwjwuswf

– Chief Nerr (@thechiefnerd) January 22, 2025