Technology

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.

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.

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!)

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.

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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It's Tinder; shouldn't it be scan bobs and vagene?

“Let’s partner with a bot maker to prevents bots. This is not about collecting and selling user data. No, not at all” 🙄😑

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.

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.

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.

What if I train a generative AI on thousands of images of iris's and start generating fake ones?

hey, you can't make bot profiles! that's our thing!

I'll be their brown-eyed girl...

Proof of humanity on Tinder. That'll be the day.

Why are they so insistant of iris scans? What are they getting out of it?

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?

I didn't realize there were still real people that use Tinder. I thought it was all bots by this point.

Hey, you! Yea, you reading this.

This scan won't work on you. The app will get lost in your eyes. 😏

No thanks, I'm out

AI is not doing this all on it's own.

Where there are fake profiles, there are also real human scammers owning them. And they won't have no problem at all with buying enough real human data from somewhere.

So if tinder wanted to do such a thing for serious, they wouldn't choose such a stupid , short-sighted action.

This stuff is gonna fail hard

So what's the dating scene like for bots anyway? What do they do on a first date? Do they show eachother their prompt?

Sure, let's pretend they care about that issue. It's not about collecting user data to re-sell later, oh no