• D1re_W0lf@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    “Let’s partner with a bot maker to prevents bots. This is not about collecting and selling user data. No, not at all” 🙄😑

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    4 hours ago

    AI is not doing this all on it’s own.

    Where there are fake profiles, there are also real human scammers owning them. And they won’t have no problem at all with buying enough real human data from somewhere.

    So if tinder wanted to do such a thing for serious, they wouldn’t choose such a stupid , short-sighted action.

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    Dating apps are what broke dating. If you are using dating apps, you’re doing it wrong.

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      What a boomer-ass sounding comment. Most of my friends met their partners on Tinder or Bumble, and so did I.

      For people in more rural areas, shy people, or mid-life relationship-seekers/divorcees, dating apps are the absolute most efficient way of meeting people you wouldn’t otherwise normally get to.

      Bot accounts may be a problem, but not everywhere, and not for everyone.

      Personally, I can’t recommend dating apps enough. Boosted my confidence, made me better at conversation, allowed me to be pickier in my choices, and found me my soul mate.

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      Tell that to the millions of people who met long-term partners only because they used dating apps. I met mine on an app and now we have a kid together. We don’t have overlapping friend groups, and although we share hobbies we didn’t do them in the same areas.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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      I live in a tiny ass town where the only two ways people socialize with strangers is drinking and maybe gambling and even then this is not a very social area. I am a currently sober alcoholic and even if I liked gambling I don’t have the money for it. Thoughts on how I can date ‘correctly’?

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      its just full of people who are not actually looking for anyone, crazy people, people who will not answer you ever. And on top of that, there is like will be 10 men for every woman and if you dont pay you will be at the very bottom of the list, if you pay you will be competing with others who pay, except those who pay more who will still be above you.

      Its miserable experience, dont do it to yourself.

    • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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      It’s gotten really, really bad, you’re not missing much. It’s borderline useless and all about getting you to pay out the ass for “premium features.”

      I miss old-school OKCupid. Fuck Match Group.

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          I wish I knew. Some people like Facebook Dating, and it’s still at least “free,” but I’ve personally made it my goal to meet people in-person and, to that end, I’ve been (gently) rejected twice in the last few weeks. Trying to put myself out there though, which has its own thrill.

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    4 hours ago

    If this truly were about keeping bots off the platform, I’d predict a great improvement in how genAI renders human eyes. Either way: supposed problem not solved, but more sensitive data collected in the process. Task failed successfully.

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    6 hours ago

    All they had to do was improve their facial recognition to scan all photos. Scammers would use fake photos and put their real photo (ai edited slightly) as the their last photo. This allowed them to get verified, but still scam. They don’t need more biometrics. Other apps are doing fine without your iris scans.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah but then they wouldn’t get to collect people’s biometric data to sell to the highest bidder.

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      It was a spam bot swarm a decade ago.

      I checked again around 2023, then it was full of human backed fake profiles that pushed cryptocoin scams. It’s called pig butchering.

      Today I assume it’s still pog butchering but backed by LLMs instead of people.

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    Sure, let’s pretend they care about that issue. It’s not about collecting user data to re-sell later, oh no