Will AI Transform Online Dating? (cnn.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/28/0652238/will-ai-transform-online-dating
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/tech/why-dating-may-look-radically-different-in-5-years/index.html
> At its investor day last week, executives from Match Group — the parent company of Match.com, Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Our Time and more — [2]teased plans to use AI to improve user experiences and help make better connections. Justin McLeod, CEO of Hinge, outlined how the company intends to fully embrace AI next year: more personalized matching, smarter algorithms that adapt to users and better understand them over time and AI coaching for struggling daters. "While AI is not going to be a panacea when it comes to the very deeply and personal problem of love, I can tell you that it is going to transform the dating app experience, taking it from a do-it-yourself platform to an expertly guided journey that leads to far better outcomes and much better value to our daters," he told investors....
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> It's already starting to play a bigger role. Tinder, for example, uses AI to help users select their best profile photos. Meanwhile, Bumble's recently enhanced [3]"For You" roundup uses advanced AI when delivering its daily set of four curated profiles based on a user's preferences and past matches. Bumble also uses AI in safety features like its [4]Private Detector — an AI-powered tool that blurs explicit images — and [5]Deception Detector , which identifies spam, scams and fake profiles. Similarly, Match Group offers tools like buttons that say "Are You Sure?" to detect harmful language and "Does This Bother You?" to prompt users to report inappropriate behavior....
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> According to Liesel Sharabi, an associate professor at Arizona State University's Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, the dating industry is still "very much in the early stages" of embracing AI. "The platforms are still figuring out its role in the online dating experience, but it really does have the potential to transform this space...." Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd [6]previously said she envisions AI functioning as a dating concierge, helping users navigate matches, set up dates and respond to messages. Startups such as Volar and Rizz have already [7]experimented with chatbots that help respond to messages. On Rizz, users upload screenshots of conversations they're having on other dating apps, and the platform helps create flirty replies. (Volar, a standalone dating app that trains on users' preferences and automatically responds to other chatbots, shut down in September due to lack of funding.) While the concept of chatbots dating on your behalf may seem strange, it could reduce the tedious early-stage communication by focusing more on highly compatible matches, Sharabi said...
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> During Match Group's investor day, Hinge's McLeod announced plans to build the "world's most knowledgeable dating coach" using years of insights from the dating process... McLeod said Hinge has already seen a higher number of matches and subscription renewals with its improved AI algorithm among early test groups. It plans to roll this out globally in March.
And of course, some users are already using ChatGPT to write online dating profiles or respond to messages, the article points out...
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/tech/why-dating-may-look-radically-different-in-5-years/index.html
[2] https://mtch.com/investorday/virtual/livestream
[3] https://bumble.com/the-buzz/for-you-on-bumble
[4] https://bumble.com/en-us/the-buzz/privatedetector
[5] https://bumble.com/the-buzz/bumble-deception-detector
[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/10/bumble-founder-whitney-wolfe-herd-says-ai-could-date-for-you.html
[7] https://www.wired.com/story/volar-dating-app-chatbot-screen-matches/
Instant No (Score:3)
If any website or individual had me converse with a chat bot before dating, that would be an instant "no" for me.
True, I've never been on a dating site. Maybe they're so terrible that users can't even be bothered to write their own messages anymore. That would be in line with what I hear about them. Layering AI on top of hogshit wouldn't make it less fecal, though.
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Imagine getting cucked by a chatbot, supposedly dating on your behalf :(
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Might as well just get an AI girlfriend at that point. That seems to be enough for some guys.
Hammer looking for a nail. (Score:2)
> Tinder, for example, uses AI to help users select their best profile photos.
Say what? The AI is going to help you pick what psychopathic behavior you want to deal with or what STD you want to acquire?
Imagine being in a mental state such that you couldn't decide whether you are attracted to someone in a photo.
Subgroups (Score:2)
If I were in the market I'd be looking for someone who won't play dating site games.
Maybe a decent comprehensive personality match neural net could dispense with the need.
But don't these sites make their money with false leads and teases?
It would probably have to be a new company.
Impossiburu (Score:2)
McLeod said Hinge has already seen a higher number of matches and subscription renewals with its improved AI algorithm
If the number of matches increases, then the number of subscription renewals decreases.
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Yep. The number one rule of running a dating site is DON'T, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ever make a lasting match. A lasting match is two lost clients.
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Assuming there were two clients to begin with. For the most part, the only people on dating sites are men; the women are all bots. A few have been caught refusing to allow actual women to sign up.
good (Score:2)
I rather just our AIs communicate with each other while me and her just does physical stuff.
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Or so all the women who know you tell you. And honestly, most of them probably would rather be gangbanged by six ex-cons on live television than be your wife.
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Tell me where the van you live in is located, so I can have it immediately towed. Into a lake, preferably.
Nice (Score:2)
In a world of fake people we can finally dispense with the people part.
Betteridge is right again! (Score:3)
There's nothing AI can do to fix the inherent bias that women have in rating men: [1]https://rudd-o.com/archives/female-hypergamy-in-a-single-stat [rudd-o.com]
[1] https://rudd-o.com/archives/female-hypergamy-in-a-single-stat
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If someone's looks are your primary consideration, you've lost already. Yes, looks are a part of how a person presents themselves, so looks aren't meaningless. But they also aren't a predictor of a successful relationship.
Well, now (Score:2)
Here's another story that makes me feel happy to be an old married guy!
Dating apps seem like they'd be torture.
Hmmmm⦠(Score:1)
Maybe AI dating agents can take care of all the uncomfortable parts of dating and thinking and feeling⦠User - Is this woman a good match for me? AI - Based on your increased heart rate and pupil dilation you seem interested. User - Should I message her? AI - Let me handle that for you. AI sends msg .0003 seconds later AI - Her AI and my AI are a match and are on a date now. Iâ(TM)ll tell you all about it later. Here is some synthetic porn based on her human agent for you to enjoy in
Re: Hmmmm (Score:1)
Posting using iPhone and Firefox does not work well me on /. â¦sigh.
AI for AI dating (Score:2)
People will use AI tools to answer AI chatbots. Eventually we can take people entirely out of the picture.
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> People will use AI tools to answer AI chatbots. Eventually we can take people entirely out of the picture.
... and then we'll rename this planet to "Solaria".
Online dating goal is to keep you looking (Score:5, Insightful)
Any online dating app works be destroying itself if it actually tried to give people lasting relationships
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I propose People Going Their Own Way
PigTOW
Path of least resistance and all that...
Online Dating: Dating for the desperate and stupid (Score:2)
Online dating used to work to some degree, but chatbots and greed and scammers have flooded in. The future is only crapification. Luckily websites like Ashley Madison are ample proof that dumb and desperate people will still shell out lots of money to be decieved into thinking they're on a dating site and not a scam site. AI will only make everything scammier.
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I met my boyfriend online, but that was almost 9 years ago when OkCupid was still reasonably decent.
I'd hate to be out looking again now. It's a good thing our relationship is good and we get along well!
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Why? Nowadays you could just ask the AI for naked pics straightaway and it will do it for you. That's much more efficient than going on 3 dates and finding out the hard way that your prospect has 7 fingers on the left hand, while one ear is fused to a boom box!
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> That's much more efficient than going on 3 dates and finding out the hard way that your prospect has 7 fingers on the left hand
Oh, how I miss 7 fingered Tiffany.
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I met my wife on OKCupid 8 years ago.
I'd shudder to think what people have to go through today to make that work.
But there's a secret... dating sites for people with similar interests. By finding and going through these sites to begin with you are already narrowing down the possibilities. There's sites for guys with large beard and the women who like beards. Sites for guys who like the outdoors and women who also like the outdoors. Same for gamers, hunters, or folks who like specific genres of music.
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A better way is to get involved in activities you care about. It could be charity work, church, hobby groups, whatever is important to you. When you get involved in these activities, you find yourself getting to know other people who share your views about what is important. It's a whole lot more reliable than an online profile.