Tinder is testing a verification flow that uses Sam Altman’s World Orb to prove you’re human, folding a pretty strange crypto-adjacent identity tool into dating app trust and safety.
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The part where it’s the World Orb specifically is what bugs me, because it quietly turns “verify for Tinder” into “enroll in a cross-app ID system.
” That’s a different bargain.
Yeah the “World Orb” branding feels like a sneaky signal-chain swap — you think you’re just adding one more check in Tinder, but you’re really feeding a reusable identifier upstream. even if they pinky-swear it’s siloed, the incentives drift over time and suddenly it’s “use this to verify everywhere” by default.
