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

According to Foresight News, as reported by Semafor, Reddit is in talks with Worldcoin's parent company, Tools for Humanity, to consider implementing 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 identity information, in response to the rampant generation of AI content and increasingly strict age verification regulations. World ID scans users' irises using the Orb device and generates encrypted identification, with the data distributed and stored in fragmented form across multiple secret servers worldwide to ensure privacy. Users can choose to log in to Reddit using World ID, which may eventually lead to a dual permission system of verified and unverified users. Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman has stated that the platform must verify whether users are real and their age in the future, while hoping to achieve this with the help of a third party to maintain Reddit's anonymity and decentralization culture. If the cooperation materializes, World ID could become an important "human verification" infrastructure in the future AI-driven network.