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OpenAI Explores Biometric Social Network to Verify Real Users

OpenAI aims to create a bot-free social network requiring biometric verification, with 17 million verified users using iris scans globally, including at San Francisco's Union Square.

  • A Forbes report says OpenAI and Sam Altman are developing a biometric social network to eliminate AI bot accounts, aiming for a real-humans-only platform.
  • Years of bot growth prompted the effort, with Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, drawing on his 2019 Tools for Humanity/World project to combat the bot problem.
  • The team proposes biometric verification via Apple Face ID or the Orb, World’s iris-scanning device, requiring iris scans at 674 verification locations worldwide and producing a unique digital ID stored on users’ phones.
  • Markets reacted when World’s WLD token jumped more than 27% Wednesday, while Forbes reported the development team has fewer than 10 people and no launch timeline.
  • Regulators and privacy advocates note World’s biometric system faces scrutiny and bans, while privacy warnings about unchangeable iris data and competition from Meta, X, TikTok, and Bluesky challenge user adoption.
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In the last three years, several Latin American countries have witnessed the landing of the orb, a spherical figure with futuristic aspect to read the iris and capture biometric data. In commercial centers, in service stations, among other places in Colombia, Chile or Brazil, this striking technology of World Foundation, created by Sam Altman, one of the props of Artificial Intelligence in the world, the CEO of Open AI, as well as his operating …

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OpenAI, an Artificial Intelligence company, is developing a social network with biometric verification, this in order to combat bots such as those that abound in networks like X. According to Forbes in a new article, the creation of a new social network, comes from the frustration of OpenIA CEO Sam Altman with social networking bots.OpenIA social network worries users about data privacyForbes revealed in a new article that OpenIA, a company resp…

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Forbes broke the news in United States on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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