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Ah, dating apps. Despite the obvious addiction to online matchmakers, it feels like anyone who logs into Tinder these days is fed up with the app.
And now, it looks like there’s more drama in dating apps spamming group chats: Vox journalist Rebecca Jennings Screenshots of multiple Hinge “weird” profiles recently tweeted. They all use the same prompt responses and all have the same names.
All these Andys (and their culture-preferring comments) raised a lot of questions, including whether the profiles were AI-generated and, if so, why they were showing up in the first place.
There are various other queries, why Andy? Is it a swipeable name? Did you swipe right on Andy? What culture does he mean? Does he go straight from Shrek Rave to model car painting class? – Roses sent by other names still seem to smell like fish.
Apps like Hinge and Tinder offer identity verification features like photo and video verification, but male bots seem to be flooding the apps. site.
Still, AI Andy and his ilk aren’t the only crossovers between robots and dating apps, or the most chilling crossovers. Real-life serial swipers (mostly men appear to be) use ChatGPT to establish rapport with women on dating apps.
A group claiming to be former Tinder employees has launched an app that creates AI-generated responses to dating profiles and alerts you when you get a date before adding the resulting encounter to your calendar. raised (they say romance is dead) ?). Tinder also appears to be testing a feature that auto-suggests responses to messages, like this engaging chat line, which hasn’t been confirmed:
While these tools can be argued to be a useful way to screen unresponsive matches from genuinely interested users (some men do), truth The added point of these AIs seems to be to chat as little as possible to secure a date and skip the tedious chore of getting to know someone…to talk to them? who knows.
What I do know for sure is that I’ll avoid Andy, who likes “everything about culture,” for a while.
HuffPost UK reached out to Tinder and Hinge for comment.
