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Worldcoin is a company who's goal is to use AI to be able to identify a person by taking a picture of their eyes.
They are a for profit company which is extremely bad, and they have also started doing things which can be seen as very bad : like installing orbs as work of art which can take pictures and scan the eyes of people who gaze into the lens of the ball. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/worldcoin-orb-ai-2341500
Their "objective" of what they are saying is getting a way to identify a person. However they give to each person who dies it their eye hash, and 1 crypto coin, I think named after them. However them being a for profit company is very scary as we cannot know what they are doing with that data and if they will sell it or not.
I may see the usefulness of being able to identify someone. If that picture is real or not. Being able to unlock your phone in a more secure way...
However, if that company starts to sell the identity of the people which volunteered in the ai training, then it's a huge privacy concern for those people.