Tinder checks AI as new option to choose your finest images

Aug 04, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Tinder checks AI as new option to choose your finest images

Tinder is testing a brand new instrument that lets AI choose your finest images.

The function was detailed throughout an earnings name with buyers by guardian firm Match, which additionally owns online dating platforms like OkCupid and Hinge.

Chief govt Bernard Kim stated it may “take out the stress” somebody feels when choosing footage, and assist them grow to be extra environment friendly and assured in constructing their profile.

The instrument would scan an individual’s photograph album and select the 5 it thinks are finest.

It was certainly one of a number of potential new AI options the corporate revealed in the course of the earnings name, together with one that will see the app clarify to customers why it had really useful sure matches.

This concept image was shared with Match investors. Pic: Match
Image:
This idea picture was shared with Match buyers. Pic: Match

Fewer swipes, extra likes?

Match stated there was a task for AI in bettering “user outcomes”, or securing extra matches with fewer swipes.

More on Artificial Intelligence

The firm stated whereas apps like Tinder have already used the tech on the backend to assist drive its algorithms and “trust and safety efforts”, new options can be extra user-focused.

Some of them ought to launch by the tip of this 12 months, because it vowed to “focus on authenticity” and bear in mind privateness and moral issues round using AI in courting apps.

Read extra:
Asking AI for potential chat-up lines

It comes after a latest survey by cybersecurity agency Kaspersky and courting app Inner Circle discovered greater than half of single males would think about using a chatbot to assist discuss to matches, and 51% of ladies stated they’d use it to maintain a number of conversations.

Increasingly convincing picture and video mills, and voice cloning instruments, have additionally been flagged as points in a potential new era of AI-driven catfishing.