There's so many angles of this that feel uncomfortable to me.
ChatGPT and Open AI were released ahead of Sam's talks with regulators to allow for an organic and unregulated response to - and use of, these tools. This included producing examples of the threats to authorship and ease-of-access to sophisticated language and programming help for bad actors.
Altman now holds in his other hand an antidote to this in the form of a new technology that requires biometric data on a global scale, creates crypto noise for wealth generation for him and investors, and doesn't actually promise much beyond creating an inevitable leak of biometric data.
Altman is a long term thinker, and his decisions about Open AI were clearly contributing to the production of a landscape that was ready for WorldCoin. Given the data implications of that - it all makes me feel really uncomfortable!
This doesn't even necessarily reflect on his personal ambitions with the project - the outcomes are enough to assess it with.
Altman now holds in his other hand an antidote to this in the form of a new technology that requires biometric data on a global scale, creates crypto noise for wealth generation for him and investors, and doesn't actually promise much beyond creating an inevitable leak of biometric data.
Altman is a long term thinker, and his decisions about Open AI were clearly contributing to the production of a landscape that was ready for WorldCoin. Given the data implications of that - it all makes me feel really uncomfortable!
This doesn't even necessarily reflect on his personal ambitions with the project - the outcomes are enough to assess it with.