Altman's Crypto Project, Worldcoin, Releases First Major Consumer Product

An anonymous reader shares a report: In the age of large language models (LLMs) and ChatGPT, AI is poised to make a weird internet even weirder -- turning the content-driven social media apps, news sites and media platforms of today into future uncanny valleys that blur the line between man and machine. As advances in AI make it more difficult to discern bots from humans, Sam Altman, the co-founder of Open AI -- the company behind ChatGPT -- thinks blockchains can help. Altman's crypto project, Worldcoin, rose to prominence last year with a controversial, Silicon Valley vision for a universal basic income (UBI): a crypto token that can be distributed in equal quantity to everyone in the world. Worldcoin is back again this week with a new launch -- this one poised to be its biggest yet. World App, Worldcoin's crypto wallet, built on the Ethereum sidechain Polygon, is the first product from the elusive identity upstart that anyone, anywhere will be able to download. The new app is one part minimalist crypto wallet, and one part passport for the AI era. It's Worldcoin's biggest swing yet to redefine itself in the eyes of consumers.

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