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.
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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I'll be their brown-eyed girl...
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.
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"
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.
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.
Proof of humanity on Tinder. That'll be the day.
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.
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.
I watched the video yesterday! Here are links for those interested:
Something very weird is happening on Tinder (YouTube)
Something very weird is happening on Tinder (Invidious mirror)
hey, you can't make bot profiles! that's our thing!
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.
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.
🤮
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
Well that was a quick decision to delete my account
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Imagine still using dating apps in 2026.
tinder is basically a hookup app.
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
Also in Minority Report, they do the whole eye scanning thing.
“Let’s partner with a bot maker to prevents bots. This is not about collecting and selling user data. No, not at all” 🙄😑
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?
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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.
Why are they so insistant of iris scans? What are they getting out of it?
Data to sell
make the AIs better by scanning thousands of human eyes lol
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No thanks, I'm out
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