{"id":26975,"date":"2024-10-20T20:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=26975"},"modified":"2024-11-16T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T17:02:33","slug":"sam-altman-rebrands-worldcoin-to-world-still-wants-your-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2024\/10\/20\/sam-altman-rebrands-worldcoin-to-world-still-wants-your-eyeballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman rebrands Worldcoin to \u2018World\u2019, still wants your eyeballs"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think that, come the artificial general intelligence, humanity will enjoy a world of unlimited abundance and prosperity for all, beyond money, under the watchful sensors of the superintelligent AI.<\/p>\n

But Silicon Valley bros talking up the Singularity still want to win at capitalism. So alongside OpenAI, Sam Altman\u2019s other big project is a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin \u2014 which just rebranded to World Network, or World for short, to slightly reduce the coiner stench.<\/p>\n

Altman gives away worldcoins free! He\u2019s just nice like that, see. He makes sure coins only go to individuals by \u2026 collecting scans of their eyeballs.<\/p>\n

Now, you might think Worldcoin was some sort of crypto pump-and-dump with a sideline in exploitable personal data.<\/p>\n

This one’s written for the AI haters in particular \u2014 though it’s a crypto post at heart \u2014 so it’s over at Pivot to AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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