OpenAI is developing a new bot-free social media platform that integrates ChatGPT and other applications. This comes after months of speculation about the project and criticism from Sam Altman about the growing number of bots on X.
OpenAI Eyes Human-Only Network
Sources familiar with the matter say the project is in its early stages, but the mission remains clear: eradicate bots. According to a Forbes report, the app is worked on by a small team and could deploy “proof of personhood” to verify distinct human features.
The company is expected to tap Apple’s Face ID and World Orb iris scanner. The latter is in World’s company suite, a project co-founded by Sam Altman. In recent months, the Iris scanner has come under intense scrutiny due to privacy concerns. Yet proponents highlight the positives, including accurate identity verification.
All accounts created on the platform would have a real human identity, a win when compared to big players like Meta and X. These platforms typically verify with emails and other means, which have proved ineffective to tackle the bot pandemic.
OpenAI’s social product will go head-to-head with X, which has continued to face bot issues despite Elon Musk’s promise to eliminate them following the acquisition. In a 2022 post, he wrote, “We would defeat the spam bots or die trying.”
Sam Altman also criticized bots on the platform for making social media seem fake. In a post on X and Reddit, he highlighted their growth over the past two years.
“I have had the strangest experience reading this: I assume it’s all fake/bots, even though in this case I know codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real. I think there are a bunch of things going on: real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak, the Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways, the hype cycle has a very “it’s so over/we’re so back” extremism…”
A key area of interest for most potential users is how the platform will integrate with other products, such as ChatGPT. So far, sources have suggested using AI to create content, although similar features already exist among competitors. The new app faces strong competition from X, Meta’s Threads, and Bluesky.
Following the news, Worldcoin (WLD) price spiked 40% but has since fallen 10% to $0.4926.
Source: https://zycrypto.com/openai-explores-bot-free-social-media-platform-to-rival-x-heres-more/
