In December 2023, the dating platform Bumble introduced so-called AI Icebreakers to the “Bumble for Friends” section of the app. Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the feature is designed to help you start a conversation by providing an AI-generated message. In order to do this, your personal profile information is fed into the AI system without Bumble ever obtaining your consent. Although the company repeatedly shows you a banner designed to nudge you into clicking “Okay”, which suggests that it relies on user consent, it actually claims to have a so-called “legitimate interest” to use data. noyb has therefore filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority.
“Hey, you seem nice. Our AI chatbots should totally fuck.”
This is just that zizek quote
It looks like you don’t have a personality yet. Would you like to use AI to generate one for you? Honestly, why are you even trying to date at that point?
to the “Bumble for Friends” section of the app.
Come on, it’s in the description, you don’t even need to open the article.
This doesn’t seem like an important distinction.
These people are looking for friends, not to date.
Authenticity is no less important in platonic friendships.
Doesn’t change the fact you didn’t bother to even read the summary
You’re getting stuck on my failure to read the summary because you thought this was an opportunity to make someone feel stupid online. The fact is that I did read it, and the article, however my brain disregarded the miniscule detail that we’re only talking about the friends part of Bumble because it has no influence on my overall takeaway. Stop being weird.
Is it any less bad that to have a pretend personality when you’re talking about finding friends…?
Every person I’ve ever dated has been a friend well before we had any kind of a relationship.
Bumble was my last straw for dating apps a few years back. I paid for a the premium service for a few months, then i started dating a girl so i cancelled it. I even had an email notification and everything saying it was cancelled. Four months later i was still getting charged, and they had zero customer service contact info to try and dispute it. So i called up my bank and disputed the charges, forwarded on the cancellation email, and then got a full refund from the bank.
Fuck dating apps. They profit off the misery and loneliness of people and have every incentive to keep you single and miserable.
On a lot of then you mysteriously start getting likes and matches when you start using them less or your premium is about to run out or just ran out.
It’s almost as if when the profit is in having paying users then keeping people on the platform is the optimal working app not the one where you date and successfully leave.
An AI message for dating? Have people just given up on living?
Cyber doll with AI personality, hmm. I’ve seen this movie before.
It’s using user details without consent.
South Park did this 2 tears ago, lol
This is on the “looking for friends” part of the app, but yeah, it’s pretty sad.
