Sam Altman's World pitches Orb eye-scanning to banks, drawing sci-fi horror comparisons
rschu · x · 2026-10-28
rschu mocks the absurd state of biometric verification: while some creeps film people with Meta Ray-Bans without consent, World — co-founded by Sam Altman — is now pitching its Orb-based eye-scanning identity verification to banks and financial firms as a deepfake countermeasure. The author concedes the anti-deepfake rationale but says staring into a shiny orb feels straight out of a sci-fi horror movie, asking "what could possibly go wrong?"
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