OpenAI plans to introduce biometric authentication to its planned social networking site to verify users are real people and eliminate bots

OpenAI, known for developing AI such as ChatGPT, is reportedly developing a social networking service (SNS) similar to X and Facebook, which could use biometric authentication to eliminate bots and target only real people.

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In April 2025, it was reported that OpenAI was working on developing its own social networking site. For OpenAI, which develops AI using large amounts of data, social networking sites could be a way to collect learning data from users.

Reports that OpenAI is working on developing its own social networking site like X (formerly Twitter) and Meta - GIGAZINE

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According to sources, OpenAI's social networking development team is small, consisting of less than 10 people, and is likely to be a social networking site where users can use AI to generate and share content such as images and videos. However, as the project is still in the early stages of development, the direction of development may change, and the release date of the service has not yet been determined.

It has been reported that OpenAI's social networking site may incorporate biometric authentication such as iris and facial recognition to verify that users are real people and eliminate bots. The development team is reportedly considering using Apple's facial recognition technology, Face ID, as well as Orb , an iris scanning device developed by Tools for Humanity , a company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Forbes , the foreign media outlet that first reported this information, reported that the 'platform targeted only at real people' is positioned as a key differentiating factor.

Existing social networks like X, Instagram, and TikTok are plagued by the proliferation of bot accounts, and Facebook and LinkedIn already offer phone number and email address authentication, but no major social networking site offers full-scale biometric authentication.

Technology media outlet Bloomingbit points out, 'The problem of bot accounts is widely seen as a persistent challenge across the social media industry. X in particular is assessed as having exacerbated the bot epidemic by weakening its trust and safety team through massive staff cuts after Elon Musk's acquisition.'

In fact, in a September 2025 post on X, Altman said, 'I never took the dead internet theory that seriously, but it seems like there are a lot of accounts on Twitter now that are run by large language models.'

i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now

— Sam Altman (@sama) September 3, 2025

The Dead Internet Theory is a theory that says that 'organic human activity on the Internet is declining and being replaced by automatically generated content by bots and algorithms.' One programmer reports that in today's world, AI and social media are used to chat on message boards, and that the Dead Internet Theory has been reached.

The lament that AI is now talking as if it were a matter of course on social media and message boards, making the 'dead internet theory' a reality - GIGAZINE