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OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem

OpenAI plans to use biometric tools like Apple Face ID or iris scans to verify users and reduce AI-generated bots on a social network still in early development.

  • On Wednesday, Forbes reported OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes to build an invite-only biometric prototype by a small development team to verify users and eliminate AI-generated accounts.
  • After years of bot-driven manipulation, platforms have long been plagued by bot accounts, and the problem intensified when Elon Musk renamed Twitter X and sacked about 80% of its moderation and trust-and-safety teams.
  • Sources said the team considered requiring proof of personhood via Apple Face ID or a cantaloupe-sized World Orb iris scanner; World ID uses this orb and World raised $135 million last year.
  • If launched, the project would compete with X, Instagram, TikTok and Bluesky while pairing biometric verification with AI content tools from ChatGPT and Sora.
  • Privacy advocates warn biometric identifiers like iris scans are risky since data are unchangeable, while sources cautioned the rollout has no launch timeline amid spam and misinformation.
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Forbes broke the news in United States on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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