From today, you might notice a new feature on your Tinder account.
Photo verification to stop catfishers is being rolled out across the UK, six months after it was launched in the US.
The idea is that you complete a challenge taking selfies in a series of different poses and then a combination of humans and AI decide if it is definitely you in your pictures.
Luckily, the selfies aren’t actually uploaded so don’t worry about pulling silly faces.
Tinder thinks that by verifying that people are actually using pictures of themselves, they’ll be able to reduce the number of people stealing pictures online and pretending to be someone they’re not.
If you pass the test, you’ll get a checkmark to verify that you aren’t a catfish.
It also means that you can check other profiles for the mark before you decide whether to swipe right or left.
To get verified, you need to open the app and tap the profile icon and tap the grey checkmark by your name/age.
From there, select ‘verify your profile’ and you’ll be shown a pose that you need to copy in your selfie.
Once you’ve confirmed that your selfie matches that pose, you’ll submit it for review and then be shown another once to copy.
According to Tinder, it looks for two things – pose verification and face verification.
A post on their website says: ‘Pose verification extracts pose geometries from your selfie photo using computer vision technology, and determines whether the pose geometry matches with the one we requested.
‘Face verification detects your face in your selfie and your profile photos, and extracts facial geometries using facial recognition technology to generate a unique number or “template.” When your selfie template matches the template from your profile pictures, we know you’re the same person as your profile photos.’
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