As the internet is flooded with more AI-generated content, World could help distinguish real humans from bots.

Brazil is following in those countries footsteps, albeit with a more lenient ban on paying for scans.

The face scans taken by the orb are only stored locally on a users phone.

Sam Altman’s World has been banned from paying for iris scans in Brazil.

Sam Altman’s World has been banned from paying for iris scans in Brazil.Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo

Such a technology could help with online identification.

But some see Worlds early behavior as exploitative.

These people may participate out of desperation, the thinking goes, so it is not quite a choice.

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World’s Orb is a polarizing device. Credit: World

When the cost of surveillance becomes almost free, everyone gets surveilled.

More than10 million scanshave been completed to date, the company announced in early January.

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