Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services
Finance, technology and social media companies often position themselves as solutions to problems they helped create.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman has been embroiled in a series of controversies about the company’s decision-making. Most recently, he incorporated actress Scarlett Johansson’s voice without her permission into ChatGPT. Yet before that, Altman helped launch a cryptocurrency project in 2021 called Worldcoin that scanned people’s eyeballs and collected biometric data in exchange for digital money.