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Comment nothing to gain for most. (Score 4, Insightful) 105

Regular people have little reason to trust them because the folks operating the systems (corporations) have little interest in using them for the benefit of people. They're just another way to convince people to separate themselves from their wages, game the stock market, replace people's jobs, mislead then with misinformation, or develop new ways to kill people

Comment Re: Cheating harder? (Score 1) 76

It's not as if colleges just hand you a degree and send you on your merry way. Students who cheat on the SAT will find themselves in over their heads when they start taking classes, so that's the real deterrent against cheating.

The admissions process itself is a competition for a finite number of spots in an incoming class for some schools, and the workload will vary based on the institution and major regardless.

The new process will just make it easier for the rich to have someone take the exam for their kids, and I'm sure administrators don't really care as links to the wealthy mean benefits down the line after junior graduates.

Comment Re:So much click bait so little time (Score 3, Informative) 13

Only the copy on the phone is stored securely. The copy on your face in meatspace is not. They trick you into letting them record the information off your real face with the camera, and then they can feed that into their deepfake version of you they are using to fool others.

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