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.
I didn't realize there were still real people that use Tinder. I thought it was all bots by this point.
Sure, let's pretend they care about that issue. It's not about collecting user data to re-sell later, oh no
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.
Bro they made most of the profiles. It's profitable.
for the love of god don't fall for this
Oh, people didn't like the idea of giving their ID to third parties? Let's move up to irreplaceable body parts. Next step: your fucking blood. Good luck declaring that one stolen when the database inevitably leaks.
That reminds me of my ex, she was willing to give her physical address and phone number to anyone who asked, but not her email address, because of security concerns.
Oh I just watched a video on this the other day, apparently scammers (like the types who do romance scams, pretending to be a gorgeous guy, then taking all your money) are getting around this security function.
They upload all stolen pics of a gorgeous guy (probably exists for women versions too) then there's one picture of them, because they have to have one pic of themselves to get the verification tick. But that one pic is obscured, like a face on a billboard or add on a poster on a street. And then tinder verifies the whole account, regardless of the other pics. I forget, it's either bumble or hinge, I think it was bumble, deletes all the pics that don't look like you, after verification, so those were sites that block that scam.
That's an aside from ai profiles. There does need to be something to protect users from scammers. I couldn't ever speak for what the best verification option is, myself.
Haven't used Tinder in a few years, but I guess I won't be using it in the future. I'm not scanning my eye to use what is arguably the worst dating app.
It's Tinder; shouldn't it be scan bobs and vagene?
Proof of humanity on Tinder. That'll be the day.
hey, you can't make bot profiles! that's our thing!
Imagine still using dating apps in 2026.
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.
No thanks, I'm out
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.
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In 6 months chatgpt 37.5 bots will now be able to recreate human irises
What stops a human running Tinder bot profiles from scanning their eyeball, getting the badge, and continuing on their merry way of running the bot?
Why are they so insistant of iris scans? What are they getting out of it?
make the AIs better by scanning thousands of human eyes lol
Data to sell
Because it's "futuristic" and fascists are obsessed with that image
No, it is because it is a unique identifier for them to collect and sell.
You know it's most likely not an either/or thing. It's most likely both.
Fascists are very obsessed with image. It's a big chunk of why the Nazis hired Hugo Voss to design the SS uniforms
To keep people without eyes off their platform.
What if I train a generative AI on thousands of images of iris's and start generating fake ones?
OpenAI is the one running this "verification". That's exactly what they'll be doing with the data
Gee I wonder where one might get a database full of iris scans?
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