Here's How Online Dating Has Transformed the Fabric of Society Itself
It's a Match! Digital match-making services have done more than just change how we find our perfect squeeze; they're changing the fundamental nature of our social networks. According to a pair of...
View ArticleDark Future: Here's When We'll Have Feedback-Based Online Dating from Black...
This article is part of a series about season four of Black Mirror, in which Futurism considers the technology pivotal to each episode and evaluates how close we are to having it. Please note that this...
View ArticleFacebook Wants to Use All Its Dirt on You to Help You Find Love
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has embarked on an extended apology tour following the Cambridge Analytica debacle. At today's Facebook F8 developer's conference, he predictably took the chance to...
View ArticleHinge Is Using a New Algorithm to Identify Your "Most Compatible" Mate
MODERN DATING, OLD ALGORITHM. Not having any luck with online dating? Maybe a decades-old algorithm can help. On Wednesday, Hinge — a dating app that claims to be for "people looking for real...
View ArticleFacebook Makes Dating Service “Facebook Official”
POKE BACK Facebook has already tried to help you find your dream job, catch up on the latest news, and even sell all that junk cluttering up your basement. Yes, all those ventures have either flopped...
View ArticleTinder Announces "Panic Button," Anti-Catfishing Features
Online Dating In a perfect world, the worst thing that could happen on a Tinder date would be that you and your match don't click. In reality, though, the downsides of online dating range from being...
View ArticleTinder Is Adding an Option to Run Background Checks on Potential Dates
Yikes Dating app Tinder will soon allow its users to run background checks on possible dates, The Verge reports. Tinder's parent company, Match Group, made an investment of an undisclosed amount in...
View ArticleOkCupid Using ChatGPT to Make Online Dating Even More Robotic
Introducing: ChatGPT, matchmaker extraordinaire. According to Mashable, online dating site OkCupid has already started to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into its online service, utilizing the tech to...
View ArticleRomantic! Wedding Startup Wants You to Write Your Vows with GPT
Till Death Terrific news for anyone who's already using ChatGPT to help get dates: if you make it to the altar, the chatbot can take care of your vows, too. Joy, a wedding planning platform, has...
View ArticleTinder Working on $500/Month Subscription for Wealthy People With Zero Game
Pay to Win Popular dating app Tinder has confirmed that it's working on a $500-a-month subscription that's tentatively called "Tinder Vault," Fast Company reports, and we can't fathom why anybody would...
View ArticleCursed New Apps Use AI to Tell You What to Say on Tinder
Rizz We've officially entered a new circle of online dating hell. Meet Rizz, which according to its App Store profile is an AI-powered "dating assistant" that tells Tinder, Hinge, and otherwise dating...
View ArticleTinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People...
Sad! If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it's not a glitch — it's part of the app's expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows "power...
View ArticleBumble Founder Says Future of Dating Is Your AI Will Date Other People's AIs...
The founder of the dating app Bumble Whitney Wolfe Herd believes the future of dating will involve having your personal AI "dating concierge" talk to hundreds of other AIs to find a match. That...
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