Sam Altman hopes to stop AI fraud with eye scans

American company Worldcoin has changed its name to World and is still hoping to revolutionize the tech world with eye scanners.

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman opens the door to human-imitating artificial intelligence with ChatGPT. With the World recognition project, he now wants to ensure that real people can be distinguished from software copies online.

To do this, people should create a profile – a “World ID” – through an eye scan. You can only do this on a spherical scanner called an “Orb”.

Among other things, World hopes to solve the problem of deepfake videos, where fake recordings of real people are created with the help of artificial intelligence software.

One of the biggest concerns right now is that fraudsters are trying to trick employees into transferring money through video calls with their alleged bosses.

Detect fake videos by scanning

World's solution, called “Deep Face,” matches video with images taken while scanning the eyes. The company hopes to provide its own camera interface on users' devices so that technology platforms don't need to collaborate with each other.

World announced that the software will be compatible with widely used video applications such as WhatsApp, Zoom, Microsoft's Teams and Apple's Facetime. However, this recognition is only available to those registered with World.

privacy issues

World started as a project with cryptocurrency elements called Worldcoin. A shorter name and a new version of the Sphere Scanner were unveiled at an event in San Francisco on Thursday.

Worldcoin’s original technical solution had privacy issues in multiple countries. The introduction in Spain was halted due to objections from data protection advocates.

However, in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, about a third of the population has received eye scans, according to El Mundo. In Lisbon, there is one profile for every seven people.

The company stresses that Orb itself doesn’t store any data, but instead goes directly to the user’s device. The world relies on blockchain technology, such as the one used in digital currencies.

The data set is split and the individual parts are stored in different locations. The purpose of this is to ensure system security and prevent data theft.

No substitute for identification documents

Altman emphasized that the new era of artificial intelligence makes it even more important to be able to determine that someone is actually human. The current infrastructure is not suitable for this.

39-year-old American Sam Altman is one of the most influential artificial intelligence entrepreneurs.Image: trapezoid

The world also wants to cooperate with the governmentsaid co-founder Alex Blania from Germany. He assured that the aim was not to replace national identity documents.

World also hopes to provide the government with the project's online identification technology, which requires only partial ID data. Bragna said it would be a huge advantage if there was a global agreement.

The number of balls increases 1000 times

In introducing the more powerful Orb model, World also emphasized that growth plans will require 1,000 times the equipment. So far, there are places where scanning is possible.

In the future, Orb will also be able to be delivered to your home in Latin America and other countries. Even after the incident, it remains unclear exactly what Orb's long-term business model should look like.

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