The day I have to give some billionaire creep my biometrics to go to a show is the same day I decide I’m never going to a show again
You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That’s always been an option. Venues don’t do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.
Or control the prices so people don’t overpay.
Welcome to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, because this is an idea pulled straight from that game.
The better to opress you with, my dear…biometric tracking everywhere for everything. We let them put microphones, cameras and location tracking, facial recognition in everything and everywhere, we might end up having to use LLMs as the interface to everything capturing voice, speech patterns, thought patterns…why the fuck not eyes, dna, fingerprints (wait, we already did that one)…
I don’t trust a single thing that the world’s most successful snake oil salesman of all time says.
Trump? Musk? There’s plenty of competition for #1. Atleast AI is actually a thing.
I’m not sure I’d give him the #1 position. Definitely up there, but not quite at the top. Or maybe several megagrifters should share the throne.
Battle Royale of the megagrifters for the throne? Would surely sell some tickets, too. :3
Scam Altman: “Oh no - the bots are 2 good. Gaze into my black hole pls”
Scam Altman: Literally gave birth to the bot technology.
I’m never going to a concert again
I’m going to support local anti-authoritarian punk and hip hop until they do away with this.
Support them after as well!
tell them to hide in the metaverse
It is just a private company doing the verification solely, orb is just a gimmick to look like actual thing.
Scalping Sam Altman would surely sell some tickets.
Fuck off Sam
How about you just restrict ticket sales to 1-2 per person and require it to be tied to a name on sale which is verified on use and cannot be easily changed? That’s all you need to do.
No, I don’t want random companies to have my legal name, I reserve the right to be anonymous both online and offline
Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the techbros…
happening at the same time as age verification many tech, and websites.
I can’t think of anyone I would rather give unalterable biometric information to than a group of egomaniacal sadists who have shown utter disregard for the privacy of everyone as well as the legal code.
I don’t think even Sam Altman thinks this. He’s saying it, sure. He’s a liar.
Are the orbs gonna shoot a laser beam that disintegrates the CEO of Ticketmaster?
