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‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is the gist of college student qualms with dating apps. Hook-up culture declines while young people search for genuine connection.

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The apps can literally just use AIs to pretend to be real people convincingly to get people to pay for a premium membership to presumably be able to arrange a meetup. After they pay for premium, they're ghosted, and it's too late to get their money back.

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[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or have the AI pretend to be the other person for a pair it calculates to match. After the two meet they'll figure out there was an AI middle man catfishing them both. They'll have a laugh and live happily ever after.

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

lol or "pay to win". Pay to have an AI reply for you that will guarantee to get the conversation going

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, and how long until this be known? If the company self-sabotage itself so profoundly it will just be the end of the company. I'm not saying that their end goal is to survive forever, but this is incredibly shortsighted.

People would still use the apps anyway or use them specifically to talk to AIs. An AI-driven app that is honest about what it is would probably do a lot more to help than anything else, come to think of it. 🤔