online dating applications
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Bumble Founder Shares Odd Future of Dating: Your AI Dates My AI
Bumble Founder and Executive Chair Whitney Wolfe Herd defended her dating app’s new AI feature on stage in San Francisco on Thursday. She went on to describe a version of the future where “AI-dating concierges” message each other on a human’s behalf. “You could, in the near future, be talking to your AI dating concierge.…
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Tinder’s $US500 a Month Membership Tier Has Me Embracing Loneliness
Tinder isn’t the best at reading the room or taking a hint. Even though its announcement of the outrageous $US500-a-month tier, Tinder Select, led to considerable backlash back in September, the company has recently been expanding the membership offering by inviting additional users to apply for it. Yes, there’s a whole application that you have…
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‘I Was Shadowbanned:’ How Hinge’s Algorithm Decides Who You Date
Some dating app users say manipulative algorithms suppress the good matches. When tech companies run romance, the truth is hard to grasp.
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Tinder Will Help You Find Wedding Dates Because Apparently Taking Strangers to Weddings Is a Thing
Let me preface this by saying that I don’t dislike Tinder. I’ve used it before to chat with singles in my area and even went on a nice date with someone from the app. You know, normal dating app things. Yet, people are apparently going on Tinder with a very different goal in mind: finding…