OpenAI CEO’s Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

OpenAI 首席执行官旗下的身份验证公司宣布了与火星哥（Bruno Mars）的虚假合作

On April 17, 2026, Sam Altman’s other AI company, Tools For Humanity, announced a partnership with Bruno Mars as he embarks on his Romantic Tour. The announcement coincided with the company’s Concert Kit tool, which allegedly allows “verified humans” to access VIP tickets and concert experiences. 2026年4月17日，山姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）旗下的另一家人工智能公司 Tools For Humanity 宣布，在布鲁诺·马尔斯（Bruno Mars）开启其“浪漫巡演”（Romantic Tour）之际，双方达成合作。该公告与该公司推出的“演唱会套件”（Concert Kit）工具同步发布，据称该工具允许“经过验证的人类”获取 VIP 门票和演唱会体验。

However, Bruno Mars’ management and Live Nation released a joint statement on April 22, claiming that the partnership didn’t exist. “To be clear, we were never even approached by [Tools For Humanity], nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” the statement read. “We first learned that our tour was being used to promote their project after their keynote made those initial claims.” 然而，布鲁诺·马尔斯的经纪团队与 Live Nation 于 4 月 22 日发表联合声明，称该合作并不存在。声明写道：“明确一点，我们从未收到过 [Tools For Humanity] 的接洽，也从未就任何合作或巡演权限进行过讨论。我们是在他们的主题演讲做出最初声明后，才得知我们的巡演被用于推广他们的项目。”

Those claims originated from TFH’s chief product officer, Tiago Sada, during a company event. The company then published a post on its website including Sada’s quote about Bruno Mars’ Romantic Tour. Eventually, word got back to Mars’ team. 这些声明源于 TFH 首席产品官蒂亚戈·萨达（Tiago Sada）在公司活动中的发言。随后，该公司在其网站上发布了一篇文章，引用了萨达关于布鲁诺·马尔斯“浪漫巡演”的言论。最终，消息传到了马尔斯的团队耳中。

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The initial post on Tools For Humanity’s website has since been edited to correct the false information. A spokesperson also confirmed the company “does not have any agreement with Bruno Mars to test or feature Concert Kit.” Additionally, “there is no association or affiliation with the artist or his tour.” Tools For Humanity 网站上的原始文章现已修改，以更正虚假信息。一位发言人也证实，该公司“与布鲁诺·马尔斯之间没有任何测试或推广 Concert Kit 的协议”。此外，“与该艺人或其巡演没有任何关联或隶属关系。”

Tools For Humanity is actually partnering with Thirty Seconds to Mars on their 2027 European tour. While TFH has not disclosed the actual reason for the false Bruno Mars announcement, it looks a bit like a case of mistaken identity. Pretty ironic, since the company’s whole shtick is supposedly verifying human identities. Tools For Humanity 实际上是在与“三十秒上火星”（Thirty Seconds to Mars）乐队合作，支持其 2027 年的欧洲巡演。虽然 TFH 并未透露发布虚假布鲁诺·马尔斯公告的真正原因，但这看起来像是搞错了对象。考虑到该公司的主打业务正是“验证人类身份”，这显得格外讽刺。

The company launched in 2019 initially as a way to verify human identities in online spaces to prevent fraud. This included live music monopoly Live Nation-Ticketmaster, which is often plagued by bots and scammers. In 2023, TFH launched a physical identity verification device in the form of an orb that scans human irises. Unfortunately, the orb does not also tell fortunes, which is clearly a major design flaw. If it did, they’d probably be able to prevent this Mars mix-up before it happened. 该公司于 2019 年成立，最初旨在验证在线空间中的人类身份以防止欺诈。这包括经常受到机器人和诈骗者困扰的现场音乐垄断巨头 Live Nation-Ticketmaster。2023 年，TFH 推出了一种扫描人类虹膜的球体物理身份验证设备。遗憾的是，这个球体并不能算命，这显然是一个重大的设计缺陷。如果它能算命，他们或许就能在这次“火星”乌龙事件发生前将其避免。