Sam Altman's Projects Have Him Looking Like a Supervillain

TL;DR Sam Altman co-founder and CEO of OpenAI also co-founded Worldcoin. Combined this single individual is gaining troves of data that mirror comic book supervillains and would likely make these villains blush with envy.

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It has really blown my mind that people did not connect the dots until a few days ago that Sam Altman is much more than the head of OpenAI. As groundbreaking as OpenAI has been and the security concerns that have followed it the bigger security issue in the room is easily the other huge company that Altman has founded, Worldcoin.

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When Worldcoin first made its splash on the stage, it was laughed off as a weird gimmick since you had an orb that scanned your eyes to prove you were human in exchange for Worldcoin crypto. Immediately when I think of this type of project all I see are red flags so it should not surprise people that the launch for the most part was done in places like Africa where the protections of people are not exactly the strongest. Since they were deployed in areas that were not close to Eastern or Western powers the governments seemed to turn a blind eye to the large-scale biometric data collection that was taking place.

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Worldcoin's orbs, which gathered the biometric data, were also known to have massive security flaws that hackers could easily exploit and thus gain access to this biometric data. Even though it has been stated that these security issues have been addressed how much biometric data was accessed along with what has been put into place to stop this from happening again is also unknown.

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With these issues in privacy and security in mind, I was shocked to see the project had been zeroing in on raising $100 million in funding to expand operations. I would have thought that with OpenAI getting all of the attention right now that this would have fallen to the backburner but that has not been the case even with a crypto winter going on and regulation uncertainty abound. Last time that Worldcoin raised funds just last year the project was worth an estimated $3 billion.

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This is where I see the parallels between your comic book supervillains and Sam Altman. Right now people do not seem to be connecting the dots about the sheer amount of data he is getting and the wide range of it. While having someone's communication data is one thing when you have, their thoughts and feelings with Chat GPT, and then their biometric data that is a significant thing. A sizeable population likes or enjoys using his OpenAI products and is just not aware of what they are giving up by using them. Throw in the biometric data and it blows away companies like Facebook or Google with its range and leads to one person.

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Testifying in front of Congress and champing how this can help the world is something I expect to see out of a comic book but is instead is playing out in real life. Congress and regulators are far far behind in these two fields and Altman has a huge advantage over the rest of the players in the space with not only his tech but his connections as well. It is a pretty scary thing to see in my opinion that someone can operate out in the open as he has but within areas that are more or less unregulated black holes acquiring incalculable amounts of data unopposed.