Reddit is considering integrating Worldcoin's iris recognition system, World ID, to enhance user verification.

According to Foresight News and reports from Semafor, Reddit is in talks with Worldcoin's parent company Tools for Humanity to consider using the iris-scan-based identification system World ID as one of the platform's human identification methods. This move aims to verify users' uniqueness and age without collecting their identification information, in response to the rampant generation of AI content and increasingly stringent age verification regulations. World ID scans users' irises using the Orb device and generates an encrypted identification token, with data distributed and stored in fragments across multiple secret servers globally to ensure privacy. Users can choose to log in to Reddit using World ID, which may lead to a future division between verified and unverified user privilege systems. Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman has stated that the platform must verify whether users are real people and their ages in the future, while hoping to achieve this through third parties to maintain Reddit's anonymity and decentralized culture. If the collaboration materializes, World ID could become a crucial "human authentication" infrastructure in the future AI-driven internet.