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AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps
Users may have difficulty once they arrive on real-life dates, without their phone to help them, say academics
Match Group, the technology company with the world’s largest portfolio of dating platforms, including Tinder and Hinge, has announced it is increasing investment in AI, with new products due this month. AI on dating platforms risks multiple harms, they say, including worsening the loneliness and youth mental health crises, exacerbating biases and inequality, and further eroding people’s real-life social skills. Yet the letter warns that dating app AI risks degrading the landscape even further: making manipulation and deception easier, reinforcing algorithmic biases around race and disability, and homogenising profiles and conversations even more than they currently are.
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