Sam Altman-Backed World Project has announced a collaboration with the US technology company Match Group, the company behind famous dating apps such as OkCupid, Tinder and Hinge.
On May 1st, Sam Altman’s Iris Scan Blockchain Project will work with Match Group’s portfolio of dating apps to bring world-class unique identification codes into the world of online dating. The company’s collection of dating apps includes Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, and plenty of fish.
This collaboration will deploy World ID, the World Chain (WLD) authorized identity protocol, to match group dating apps to see if the profile owner is a real person. According to the announcement, the pilot project starts with Japanese Tinder users and offers a quick and easy way to verify reliability without sacrificing privacy.
“As AI continues to move forward, the ability to make sure real people are behind all interactions is essential to maintaining trust and credibility online. Technology helps us find each other. Real people make it meaningful,” the World Project wrote in an official statement.
A recent 2024 survey found that around 62% of internet users claimed that they were catfished in the US alone. Meanwhile, 53% of them were women, and 18% were between 16 and 24 years old.
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Advances in AI make it increasingly difficult to identify which profiles are human by real humans in the digital face sea. By adopting World ID, the project hopes that dating app users will be able to find real connections with real people instead of AI-generated profiles.
World ID provides a system called “human proof” that allows users to verify their ID through a biometric device called an ORB.
In the past, the unique Iris-Scanning code for a project supported by Sam Altman has been caught up in privacy concerns, accusing Hong Kong and Brazilian authorities of “collecting images of iris and public members of accusing them of violating privacy laws.
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