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[News] Grindr plans to add an AI boyfriend feature to sext with you when no one is swiping right (uk.news.yahoo.com)
submitted 9 months ago by pavnilschanda to c/aicompanions
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Grindr, the popular gay dating app, is planning to introduce an AI boyfriend feature that can sext and have ongoing relationships with users, trained on previously private messages between users with their consent. The move aims to boost revenue by putting some free features behind a paywall and offering new AI-powered paid features. However, early testing has revealed issues with the AI making racist statements, which employees are working to address before public release. The controversial plan highlights both the potential and risks of deploying conversational AI trained on personal data, especially for marginalized communities where hateful outputs could be particularly harmful.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

The app killed itself with pay walls, intrusive adverts and spam- it used to be the only app anyone used now its dead.

I really don't think adding more annoying junk is going to help, though if they train it on real grindr chats it'd be the most unhinged bot ever so could be fun

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

grindr doesn't work like tinder. Swiping right does nothing.

[–] pavnilschanda 2 points 9 months ago

I wonder how a long-term solution would be? Would they include separate personalities as well? Since different people have different preferences.