So Sam Altman first creates the situation that we can no longer distinguish humans from bots, then asks everyone to trust him with even more biometric data to get around the problem he created.
Either way he wins at everyone else’s expense. I urge you to not take this at face value, Sam has already shown with Worldcoin that he is not trustworthy.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
But theoretically, you could implement the protocol in a privacy-preserving manner where the only thing that needs to be saved, is the hash of the biometric data, not the biometric data itself.
So lets say that your face + fingerprint + iris each outputs a value. Concat those and hash them, and you have a unique value that can be reproduced elsewhere, without having to store anything else but the actual hash of the input.
Again, I'm not sure if this is what they are doing, but if that's how it works, they wouldn't actually need to gather any biometric data, after creating the hash it can be thrown away.
Any time human communication is mediated by technology there’s the chance that the communication is not really what it seems to be. Are we watching live events on TV or a recording of live events or a reenactment of actual events or complete fiction?
In some sense, on the internet everything is already a bot, it’s just that right now the majority of the bots are directed by humans in real time. I fully expect the majority of bots will be semi or fully autonomous in the coming years. (Maybe we’ll stop staring at screens all day.)
I was tricked by a machine yesterday. I had to call up the bank because their online banking website had booted me out.
After only a couple of rings, and no hold music, I was straight through to a person! This is unprecedented. The call was something like:
"Hi, you're through to foobank. How can I help you today?"
"Hi, your online banking has locked me out and said I need to call this number to get my account re-enabled."
"No problem. What message do you get when you try to login?"
"Oh, I haven't actually tried to login again, I can try if you want. It just kicked me out and said my account was locked and I need to call to get it re-enabled".
"No problem. If you click the 'reset my password' button under the login form, you'll be able to reset your password."
"I'm not sure that's going to work, but I'll give it a try. It definitely said my account was locked and I need to call to get it re-enabled."
"No problem. If you click the 'reset my password' button under the login form, you'll be able to reset your password."
"...are you a machine?"
"I'm Ava (edit: maybe Ada[0]?), a virtual assistant. Would you like me to put you through to a member of staff?"
"Yes please".
And only then did I get to spend 10 minutes listening to hold music and ads, before a member of staff actually unlocked my account.
I felt stupid and deceived.
I'm not bothered by the fact that my servants aren't people, it cheers me up. It's not a good job for a person, it is a very bad job with very bad pay.
If someone MITMs your password, you can rotate it. A bit harder to do that with your iris.
Of course, true for fingerprint scanning too which has been around for a while, but iris kind of takes that to a new minority report level for many.
For instance, many of us are already offloading memories onto our phones, Johnny Mnemonic-style, wirelessly. Just because it doesn't look the way it does in science-fiction doesn't mean it isn't happening.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/05/1022041...
Why would you have to do that regularly? The point is to do it once in a trusted environment and then the only thing you need to verify whatever is the hash itself, not to re-encode again and again.
Can't decide if this is a nice touch or just really creepy. Might be both.
I just watched Ex Machina last night.