TechTakes @awful.systems David Gerard @awful.systems 3 wk. ago

Grindr proposes ‘AI wingman’ to optimize away the gay sex bit

pivot-to-ai.com Grindr proposes ‘AI wingman’ to optimize away the gay sex bit

Gay dating app Grindr is bringing you an “AI wingman.” Grindr CEO George Arison suggests the AI wingmen could even just talk to each other directly — it “saves the humans time”! [WSJ, archive] Grin…

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"if we don’t do it, someone else will"

Ohh yes, if Grindr doesn't feed Grindr users's chats, which only the users involved and possibly Grindr itself are presumably privy to, to an LLM, someone else will.
- And, of course, we know that once one company uses those chats, it becomes literally impossible for anyone else to use them.
- I mean other apps are already doing it so he's right
No thanks, this pic gets me great enough results as it is.
App that is plagued by bot accounts thinks that adding more bot-nature will improve quality
- Every dating app is full of bots and dead accounts. Comes with the territory.
  
  oh hey looks like lemmy is plagued by bots too.
You know how sometimes you use a grocery app and it's fairly obvious that the people writing them don't spend time in grocery stores? I'm getting that same impression here.
Does the (straight) CEO not realize how easy it is to get laid off Grindr? It's an Ok Cupid-style grid, and there's a profile flag you can set that literally says "yes please, send me NSFW pics". You can literally send you hole/pole to everyone who would want to see it in a 3 mile radius
- lol i wasn't aware he was actually straight
  
  Actually I was wrong, the guy is gay and married. But he IS a trumper, so I probably got mixed up.
Now let us embark on a journey and delve right into your asshole and explore the rich vibrant tapestry of your colon
- This reminds me that the 'Instructions unclear' jokes are now actually a reality thanks to LLMs.
Oh for FUCKS SAKE do not let AI in the way of my GENITALS
- Citizen, the computer has removed the need for the pounding sodomy, are you not delighted
  
  I am delighted! For I won the victory over myself! I fuck Big Brother 🤡🤪🍆✨🐽🎉
Grindr has been used to out people everywhere from Palestine to Egypt to Chechnya to America, so training a chaotic, insecure LLM on user data seems like the privacy disaster from hell.
OK I've got it right! we do DRM, right, but for condoms
Today in "Fuck this timeline, get me out of this universe, please!" 🫠
this is just zizek's perfect date but gay and with chatbots
I don't think "going to a random place the algorithm told you to and having sex with whoever else is there" is nearly as common a fetish as it would have to be for this to be anything approaching a viable concept.
Eurgh!
Covert conversion therapy by setting you up with the absolute worst of humanity has to offer.

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