Maybe it is finally time for open-source(ish) dating to make an impact!
(It won’t. I tried it a couple years back and it is a ghost town!)
It’s probably a Goldilocks zone thing where too few prevents it from working, and too many will inevitably be overrun by bots and scanners.
It’s Tinder; shouldn’t it be scan bobs and vagene?
or the peen.
“The app said scan my eye. It was non-specific as to which”
The writing on the wall says this will be required to access anything on the internet. I’ll go a step farther and say, DNA will be required to access the internet. Only once life would be impossible to live without access. Getting closer and closer.
Proof of humanity on Tinder. That’ll be the day.
In the context of online dating, I actually agree with implementing the same level of KYC checks that banks and credit card issuers have adopted. I also think the FTC needs to step in and break up the monopoly Match Group has created.
All of these platforms are littered with fake profiles, scammers and foreign women searching for the means to a green card. It’s made them practically unusable.
A/S/L
If that’s a serious question, 34/M/Bristol.
Hey, you! Yea, you reading this.
This scan won’t work on you. The app will get lost in your eyes. 😏
If it’s anything like whatever eyeball tech my local DMV was using last time I had to go in for a new license, it won’t work because I have to forcibly open my eyes so ludicrously far, like Gowron on meth, that I would never put that on their app.
I’ll be their brown-eyed girl…
Imagine still using dating apps in 2026.
tinder is basically a hookup app.
All they had to do was improve their facial recognition to scan all photos. Scammers would use fake photos and put their real photo (ai edited slightly) as the their last photo. This allowed them to get verified, but still scam. They don’t need more biometrics. Other apps are doing fine without your iris scans.
From what I’ve read, the “dating” meat market apps are doing horrible. I doubt they want to invest in a sinking ship, at least more than they have to.
Yeah but then they wouldn’t get to collect people’s biometric data to sell to the highest bidder.
“Let’s partner with a bot maker to prevents bots. This is not about collecting and selling user data. No, not at all” 🙄😑
The Match Group-owned platform is partnering with World, the identity verification project by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to introduce a system that uses iris scans to confirm a person is human.
🤮
You want some fuk? Give us you biometric data!
😏
Well that was a quick decision to delete my account
As soon as it mentioned eye scanning I assumed Sam Altman was involved. Didn’t he have that world coin thing where he scanned a bunch of eyes in impoverished countries?
IIRC altman stiffed the Brazillians who scanned their irises in his scam, never paid a dime
In 6 months chatgpt 37.5 bots will now be able to recreate human irises
They give you the poison to sell you the cure.
I didn’t realize there were still real people that use Tinder. I thought it was all bots by this point.
It was a spam bot swarm a decade ago.
I checked again around 2023, then it was full of human backed fake profiles that pushed cryptocoin scams. It’s called pig butchering.
Today I assume it’s still pog butchering but backed by LLMs instead of people.
pog butchering
Pogs are back? Finally, my investment will pay off!
PogChamp
I think I was last on it pre-pandemic and, yeah, it was a bot fest. The profiles that appeared to be legit humans weren’t all that impressive either.
I can’t imagine going back. Unless I pivot careers to crypto scammer.
Also in Minority Report, they do the whole eye scanning thing.
What if I train a generative AI on thousands of images of iris’s and start generating fake ones?
Gee I wonder where one might get a database full of iris scans?
There’s gotta bee a good enough example set somewhere for research already
OpenAI is the one running this “verification”. That’s exactly what they’ll be doing with the data
Sure, let’s pretend they care about that issue. It’s not about collecting user data to re-sell later, oh no
