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Story, an IP-focused EVM L1 blockchain, is adding Tools for Humanity’s World ID tech in a move to increase transparency around who’s human on its IP Portal licensing database currently in open beta.

“We’re just coming out of an age where the big AI companies, right, basically scraped the whole internet, and rather than ask for permission, they’re just asking for forgiveness,” Story Foundation President Andrea Muttoni told me in an interview. 

“We haven’t really fully understood the magnitude of it. You know, the whole concept of like, the dead internet theory, right? It’s going…

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