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Prediction Held up
Blania: Social platforms will fail attempting phone face biometrics for human verification
“My guess is over the next couple months, we will see things like these platforms trying to use things like face biometrics on the phone, which, you know, I know it will break, so it's fine, but I think we'll go through that cycle now.”
Alex Blania Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 32:15 How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
Assertion Supported
Blania: World Orb sends a signed face image to users for re-authentication
“When you verify with an orb, we not only do we check your uniqueness in a fully anonymous and privacy-preserving way, and we should talk about that, but also we send to your phone a signed face image that you then can later use to re-authenticate against it.”
Alex Blania Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 9:40 How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
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