{"id":204213,"date":"2025-06-22T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204213\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:10:10","slug":"reddit-looks-to-get-in-bed-with-altmans-creepy-world-id-orbs-for-user-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204213\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Looks to Get in Bed With Altman’s Creepy ‘World ID’ Orbs for User Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaze into the Orb if you want your upvotes. According to a report from Semafor<\/a>, Reddit is actively considering partnering with World ID, the verification system co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to perform user verification on its platform.<\/p>\n

Per the report<\/a>, Reddit\u2019s potential partnership with World ID would allow users to verify that they are human by staring into one of World ID\u2019s eye-scanning orbs. Once confirmed to be a real person, users would be able to continue using Reddit without revealing anything about their identity. Currently, Reddit only does verification via email, which has been insufficient to combat the litany of incoming AI-powered bots that are flooding the platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gizmodo reached out to both Reddit and World ID for details of the potential partnership. Reddit declined to comment. A spokesperson for World said, \u201cWe don\u2019t have anything to share at this time; however, we do see value in proof of human being a key part of online experiences, including social, and welcome all of the opportunities possible to discuss this technology with potential partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar, World<\/a> is somewhere between a verification system and a crypto scheme. World ID is a method for verifying that a person is a human without requiring them to provide additional personal information\u2014something the company calls \u201canonymous proof of human.\u201d It offers several verification techniques, but the most notable is its eye-scanning Orb. The company claims<\/a> that neither \u201cverification data, nor iris photos or iris codes\u201d are ever revealed, but going through the scan gets you a World ID, which can be used on a platform like Reddit, should it partner with World on this endeavor.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in the backend of this whole thing is a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, which you theoretically can use at major retailers\u2014but like, can you really? Is anyone doing that? The founders of World, Altman and Alex Bania, launched<\/a> the crypto part of the program with the intention of building an \u201cAI-funded\u201d universal basic income. Mostly, it\u2019s made local governments really mad and has been at the center of legal and regulatory investigations<\/a> into how it\u2019s handling user data. It\u2019s largely targeted developing nations for its early launches, and used some dubious practices along the way<\/a> to get people to demo the system.<\/p>\n

Also, it\u2019s probably not technically illegal, but it does seem pretty convenient that Sam Altman offers a \u201csolve\u201d for a problem that his other company, OpenAI, is in no small part responsible for. Almost seems like he knew what issues he was about to cause and decided to cash in on both ends. Must be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gaze into the Orb if you want your upvotes. According to a report from Semafor, Reddit is actively…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,82272,2511,20208,53,16,15,82273],"class_list":{"0":"post-204213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-biometric","11":"tag-reddit","12":"tag-sam-altman","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-world-id"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114725062098289819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}