17.9M signups, only 3.5M verified by Orb, 2023's billion-user target missed by 994M — that's the infrastructure claiming to anchor humanity-proof for 5B internet users. Altman's OpenAI manufactures the synthetic-content problem his World venture charges to solve, and the new Tinder/Zoom/DocuSign integrations turn iris scans into a soft prerequisite for dating, video calls, and notarization. Proof-of-personhood gating every social surface routes to one company holding biometric enrollment rails — open-source SDK, closed-source Orb hardware, closed allowlist.

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