AI Goes to College for the Free Money

The leap to "we need Sam Altman's Worldcoin to track everyone" as a solution seems like an extreme jump that skips many less privacy invasion, less expensive, less insane solutions.

&gt;The bots’ goal is to bilk state and federal financial aid money by enrolling in classes, and remaining enrolled in them, long enough for aid disbursements to go out.<p>California and the federal government collects taxes and processes tax returns, right? Why can&#x27;t payments be made through the same system? That&#x27;d probably reduce fraud by an order of magnitude.

When things go fully remote, it enables fully-remote fraud. Another example is North Koreans applying for jobs.<p>If we want remote work and remote education to work better (and I think we should), we will need better identity checking. Would it really be that hard to make something like using a notary scale?

I can&#x27;t read the page because of the cloudflare blocker. They really are destroying the internet, and anyone who wants people to actually see their content needs to stop using them.

I don&#x27;t know how &quot;state and federal financial aid money&quot; works. I always thought you paid for the classes upfront, then whatever state&#x2F;federal program reimburses you. So, in my mind, I don&#x27;t see how someone would come out ahead here. [confused]

Source: Someone has a gut feeling.