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World Verification Adoption Growth
Growth in the number of verified users for the World project over the last two years.
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Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Now Proves You're Human on Tinder - WIRED
Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they’re a real human, provided they’ve already stared into one of World’s glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned. The announcement follows a pilot project for Tinder verification that World previously conducted in Japan.The global Tinder expansion is one of the biggest tests yet for World, and the company’s bet that everyday consumers will be willing to sign up for biometric verification services to use internet applications. Founded in 2019 by Altman and Alex Blania, the World project was designed for a future where the internet is overrun with highly capable AI agents that make it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to tell who is really human. As companies like OpenAI—where Altman is CEO—and Anthropic push AI agents into the mainstream, the problem World was built to solve feels increasingly urgent.But World has struggled to achieve mainstream adoption, and it has encountered resistance from governments around the globe that have probed the company over suspected violations of data protection laws. The company says 18 million people have now been verified with an Orb, up from 12 million last year.In addition to the Tinder global expansion, Tools for Humanity, the company behind World, announced a number of other consumer and enterprise partnerships on Friday at its Lift Off event in San Francisco. The startup says Tinder users who verify with their World ID will receive five free "boosts," typically a paid feature that increases the number of users who see a profile by up to 10 times for 30 minutes. The videoconferencing platform Zoom also says that users can now require other participants to verify their identity with World before joining a call. Docusign, the contract signing software, will allow users to require World’s identity verification technology.Tiago Sada, Tools for Humanity’s chief product officer, tells WIRED the company sees major platform partnerships as key to helping World become a mainstream identity-verification technology. Sada said he’s especially interested in working with social media companies in the future, and was encouraged to see that Reddit has started testing World as a solution to help users distinguish bots from real people.Got a Tip?Do you have information about World or Tools ...
Sam Altman deepens World's ties with Tinder, Zoom to fight bots and ...
Sam Altman’s World project is betting the internet needs a way to prove you’re human. And it’s racing to embed that system everywhere before regulators shut it down.World, the controversial project that scans its users’ eyeballs to create a nontransferrable digital identity, unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet.The update introduces a redesigned architecture intended to improve privacy, security, and usability. New features include account-based identity, multi-key support, and recovery mechanisms.World argues that its biometric verification system will become essential as AI-generated bots and deepfakes make it harder to distinguish humans from machines online. To that end, the company is deepening its partnerships with popular consumer platforms like Tinder and Zoom, alongside enterprise tools like Docusign. The idea is to position World ID as the internet’s default “proof-of-humanity” layer.World’s entire system relies on its custom-built “Orb” device to establish what is calls proof-of-humanity. To obtain a World ID, users must head to a device in person, get their eyeballs scanned and generate a unique cryptographic code. Users would also receive WLD tokens in return for scanning their irises.Myriad partnershipsOn Friday, World detailed partnerships aimed at embedding its identity layer across consumer platforms.The company is expanding its partnership with Tinder, where users can display a “verified human” badge, and rolled out “Concert Kit,” a tool to help artists reserve tickets for verified individuals to combat scalper bots.World also said it is working with Zoom on a feature called “Deep Face,” which verifies that a meeting participant is a real human rather than a deepfake, and with Docusign to incorporate proof-of-human checks into digital agreements.Finally, the company is also rolling out “AgentKit,” which allows verified humans to delegate their credentials to AI agents, enabling services to confirm a real person authorised automated actions like purchases or meeting bookings.Regulatory headwindsNotwithstanding its lofty goals, World has faced regulatory scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions.In November 2025, Thai data protection authorities ordered World to delete over 1.2 million iris scan records and suspend all operations in the country.In December 2024, Germany’s data protection agency declared that World had violated data privacy rules and ordered it to delete iris codes it had collected.Authorities in Sp...
Sam Altman's World Deploys Verification With Zoom, Tinder, Docusign
World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, is rolling out a major upgrade to **World ID** and expanding integrations with **Tinder**, **Zoom**, and **Docusign** to counter bots, deepfakes, and agentic AI. The system still relies on in-person biometric enrollment via the **Orb** iris and face scanner, but World stresses that images are deleted, cryptographic proofs are stored on ...
Sam Altman's World Teams With Zoom, Tinder to Better Verify ...
3 hours ago ... Iris-scanning crypto project World expands with Tinder's U.S. human verification rollout and Zoom's Deep Face feature.
