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I first heard of him through the WorldCoin stuff, and nothing about that made him look like an upstanding person. That whole thing was/is shady as hell.

I certainly don't know him, but I see more reasons not to trust him than to trust him.

>>JohnFe+(OP)
I'd never heard of that, but that definitely sounds shady. Thanks for mentioning it. To save people a search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin

>>JohnFe+(OP)
What's so shady about it?

>>datafl+64
Why would someone running OpenAI possibly be involved in something so unnecessarily speculative and unrelated?

I ask that question leaving out any of the socio-economic and privacy concerns around that project.

>>DirkH+38
I should have said "sketchy" instead of "shady", as "shady" implies a criminality I don't mean to imply.

What's sketchy about it is that they were offering money to largely poor and technologically naive populations in exchange for gathering very sensitive biometric data from them. Identifying data that cannot be changed and can be used to track them without their knowledge. Their stated goal is to have every person on Earth take part, to boot. The whole idea couldn't set off more alarm bells if it tried.

I give them style points for using truly dystopian-looking "orbs" to do it, though.

>>bredre+X9
He started WorldCoin before OpenAI came around.

>>JohnFe+5r
The Wikipedia page says world coin was founded in 2019?