I don’t think even Sam Altman thinks this. He’s saying it, sure. He’s a liar.
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 don’t trust a single thing that the world’s most successful snake oil salesman of all time says.
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.
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!
Are the orbs gonna shoot a laser beam that disintegrates the CEO of Ticketmaster?
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.
Fuck off Sam
Scalping Sam Altman would surely sell some tickets.
Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the tech oligarchs…
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.
(1) Offer a solution which exacerbates bot-traffic on the internet, (2) legitimize the need for verification of users as a result, (3) offer the most privacy-invasive “solution” to the “problem” imaginable: problem(1)-reaction(2)-solution(3)… every parasite’s favorite paradigm :)
How does this achieve anything that requiring proof of purchase doesn’t?
Because you can hand someone else proof of purchase. The only way to truly prevent scalping is by verifying the purchaser’s identity, to ensure they cannot transfer it to anyone else. At least not without selling it through the distributor’s own channels where they will then collect a fee for the privilege of providing the proprietary platform to facilitate such transactions.
I’ll take the scalping, thanks.
It achieves invading customer privacy.
Oh, and selling a lot of their scanner-ball hardware things. Because now anybody who ever buys tickets to any concert or any other live event will now also need to buy one of those little fuckers.
You can’t solve scalping when its a core function of LiveNation’s ecosystem. Scalping is the business model.
What a relief. As long as we are all tracked at all times by both government and corporations, we can finally be free of the burden of ticket scalping. It’s a small price to pay for this great reward. I think we can turn our attention toward solving other oppressive plagues like Jay walking and double parking now.
They thought wrong.
This dumbass idea assumes a single person and NOT a group of people are responsible for scalping tickets, when in actuality this will just drive up scalping prices.
You fucking morons.
Do you have to put your eye on it? Because hello pink eye everyone!
Please insert identity verification probe
