speaking of influence operations, the strawberry dude and 'lily' just did one of those twitter voice group chat things where everyone tried to guess if lily was an ai or not. there just happened to be a worldcoin rep in the room...
worldcoin is a private company owned by sama that verifies identity by scanning the eyeball. He's been rolling out the technology in places like South Africa, where they also recruited people to train openai models by RLHF etc.
It seems it has since been confirmed a scam by some of the participants.
This chap looks to have more details on it https://twitter.com/BenjaminDEKR/status/1824676550379192324