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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    For w/e reason, isn't for me. I'll put some clips from it here. Not the whole thing tho, it's long.

    Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they’re a real human, provided they’ve already stared into one of World’s glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned. The announcement follows a pilot project for Tinder verification that World previously conducted in Japan.

    The global Tinder expansion is one of the biggest tests yet for World, and the company’s bet that everyday consumers will be willing to sign up for biometric verification services to use internet applications. Founded in 2019 by Altman and Alex Blania, the World project was designed for a future where the internet is overrun with highly capable AI agents that make it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to tell who is really human. As companies like OpenAI—where Altman is CEO—and Anthropic push AI agents into the mainstream, the problem World was built to solve feels increasingly urgent.

    The startup says Tinder users who verify with their World ID will receive five free "boosts," typically a paid feature that increases the number of users who see a profile by up to 10 times for 30 minutes. The videoconferencing platform Zoom also says that users can now require other participants to verify their identity with World before joining a call.

    “We're just not used to this kind of technology. Many people used to tape their [iPhone’s sensor used to enable] Face ID when it came out, then we got used to it.”

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    [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Dating services are literally the only place I’m half-way okay with identity verification as an option.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    If you are editorializing the headline already, could you at least call it "Worldcoin" (the original and better known name) and not just "World" which is really confusing?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Well, I mean, I guess it's... good... that... we have... healthy competition amongst identity-tracking companies...?!

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