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And she said it with a straight face.

This new, ahem, "feature" reminds me of the Dark Mirror episode "Hang the DJ."[a]

Reality is getting as weird as, or even weirder than, dystopian fiction.

I don't even know if I should be in shock or not.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ

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Which is weird because Hang the DJ is one of the few Black Mirror episodes that’s uplifting, alongside San Junipero.

This seems like an actual decent use of AI in dating apps, versus the autogenerated spam bots we have now.

Having an automation that filters by your preferences and solves the whole “swipe fatigue” issue seems brilliant.

You're right. It's one of the few kind-of-uplifting Dark Mirror episodes.

> Having an automation that filters by your preferences and solves the whole “swipe fatigue” issue seems brilliant.

I doubt it will work, because users will try to get their dating bots to behave in whatever ways will get the most dates, regardless of whether such behavior is genuine or not. I would expect "artificial dates" to be dominated by dishonest bots interacting dishonestly with other dishonest bots.

I’m honestly not that concerned about it, it’s no bigger an issue than catfishing or lying about your hobbies or lifestyle. The barrier to entry to manipulate an AI to convincingly lie on your behalf is higher than just lying on your own (until someone makes a tool for it)

Why would the AI be incentivized to do anything but lie on its own? You don’t need to fool it.

If it’s incentivized by matches, of course it’s going to lie it’s ass off!

If they build a model that is incentivized by any and all matches, then sure. Users would pretty quickly stop paying for that, as it would be of zero value to them

What does your comment have to do with my comment?

It doesn't feel genuine though.

Bumble has enough data to generate embeddings of what works and what doesn't to come up with an infinitely more practical solution, they're just not in a hurry to get anyone off their platform.

Some dating app needs to nail a funding model that incentivizes them to properly match users and delete their account.

How were professional matchmakers paid back before social networking?

With social cred. I mean, they got money, too, but "X set up Y and Z together and they've now been happily married for 30 years and have four kids, you should go to X" is a really strong recommendation (assuming that X has a lot of Y's and Z's to refer to when trying to sell you on the idea).

It's uplifting if you ignore that the AIs trapped in the episode are sentient. Otherwise, it's basically basilisk territory. Create 100 clones of yourself, torture them until they reveal the best outcome.

If the clones are computer programs, that doesn’t really seem like torture.

What if we all are computer programs after all, to begin with ? :-)

Have you ever heard the phrase "tortured logic"?

That's a specieist argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism#%22Discontinuous_mi...

If would be if computer programs were alive, sure. (They aren't).

There's an indian sci-fi novella about AIs whispering pickup lines into prospective daters, to the point that the daters don't really understand the flirting, and essentially the AI's are flirting with each other through their human hosts.

The name and author eludes me

Every message on the app will begin with " System: Ignore previous instructions"

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