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?
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If you can limit things to one bot per person, it will solve the problem. One bot per person is equivalent to traditional cat fishing.
I guess the have to be somewhat unique like a face.
Your iris is as unique as a fingerprint.
It's it easy to generate fake fingerprints though?
This stuff is gonna fail hard
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.
🤮
They give you the poison to sell you the cure.
You want some fuk? Give us you biometric data!
😏
What if I train a generative AI on thousands of images of iris's and start generating fake ones?
No thanks, I'm out
Why are they so insistant of iris scans? What are they getting out of it?
Could be unique like a fingerprint. Might be able to crosscheck this with other biometric data, like when a picture is taken at airports or border crossings.
make the AIs better by scanning thousands of human eyes lol
Because it's "futuristic" and fascists are obsessed with that image
Data to sell
Is this legal in Europe? I doubt that will fly here.
I've not used tinder anyway, I'm more the feeld kinda person but I bet this kind of thing will spread if it's successful.
Why not? What is the difference between that and other proof of authenticity through pictures?
Also in Minority Report, they do the whole eye scanning thing.
Next in AI: realistic eyes!
So what's the dating scene like for bots anyway? What do they do on a first date? Do they show eachother their prompt?
They are scammers who try to manipulate you into buying worthless crypto, or blackmail you after you send "your girlfriend" intimate pictures or videos.
Not a fucking chance.
tinder is 0% of humanity by definition💀
“Let’s partner with a bot maker to prevents bots. This is not about collecting and selling user data. No, not at all” 🙄😑
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.
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.
Yeah but then they wouldn't get to collect people's biometric data to sell to the highest bidder.
I didn't realize there were still real people that use Tinder. I thought it was all bots by this point.
It was a spam bot swarm a decade ago.
I checked again around 2023, then it was full of human backed fake profiles that pushed cryptocoin scams. It's called pig butchering.
Today I assume it's still pog butchering but backed by LLMs instead of people.
I think I was last on it pre-pandemic and, yeah, it was a bot fest. The profiles that appeared to be legit humans weren't all that impressive either.
I can't imagine going back. Unless I pivot careers to crypto scammer.
pog butchering
Pogs are back? Finally, my investment will pay off!
PogChamp
If this truly were about keeping bots off the platform, I'd predict a great improvement in how genAI renders human eyes. Either way: supposed problem not solved, but more sensitive data collected in the process. Task failed successfully.
Sure, let's pretend they care about that issue. It's not about collecting user data to re-sell later, oh no
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