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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.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem like an important distinction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

These people are looking for friends, not to date.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Authenticity is no less important in platonic friendships.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't change the fact you didn't bother to even read the summary

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Is it any less bad that to have a pretend personality when you're talking about finding friends...?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Every person I've ever dated has been a friend well before we had any kind of a relationship.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

An AI message for dating? Have people just given up on living?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Cyber doll with AI personality, hmm. I've seen this movie before.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's using user details without consent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is on the "looking for friends" part of the app, but yeah, it's pretty sad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

South Park did this 2 tears ago, lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Hey, you seem nice. Our AI chatbots should totally fuck."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is just that zizek quote