Of course not. If he was into politics, he’d have to admit primarily that gay, white male conservatives who are so far in the closet they visited Narnia are the apps main base.
Nobody but scammers even uses grindr anymore. This is to impress shareholders, not users. The users migrated to sniffies already.
I… wh… sniffies?
It’s furries that go as Snuffleupagus.
It’s like grindr as a web app. You install nothing. There’s a paid tier but it just removes ads and expands the radius.
Cool features… wild name.
Don’t decode this one. Just observe. You’ll just end up doing a rule34 in a recursive loop.
It’s still very popular where I live.
Lots of conservatives there?
Not that I know.
All I read was “data collection first”
Depending on where you look, Grindr CEO George Arison’s net worth is $20–80 million.
He joins a growing list of gay executives hell-bent on proving that enshittification isn’t just for the straights.
Peter Thiel says hi
The crazy part is they basically own this space. An upstart app with AI that can turn the paradigm on its head is highly unlikely.
I’d imagine they’re basically like steam. Just keep printing the money if you don’t fuxk up.
It smells more like Facebook than Steam to me. they can print money for now because they have established scale and customer base, but it feels a bit slimy to where it might not be that appealing to new users. Dating services in general have a bad vibe-- bot problems, low quality matches, dark patterns, so authenticity is a big selling point, something AI drives a huge stake into.
I’d expect that thr gay community, after decades of being a target for abuse, tends to be a bit more sensitive of red flags and looking for truly safe spaces. The Facebook comparison breaks down there, as it has 700 million Aunt Martha users whose most politically sensitive post is in defence of Miracle Whip on salads.
I predict it’ll go Meta and have fake accounts to keep engagement up plus a “AI matchmaker” assistant that will tell you its “advice” on the situation, mostly to get you to add more personal information.
The company is probably already using user data to build gay-interest advertising models for capitalism and gay-dar models for tyrants, but this policy will let them more openly sell that data.
The app’s already made up of mostly fake accounts. There’s more bots on Grindr than actual people.
Just a reminder for anyone that has a problem with this, but still uses the service… You’re part of the problem. If you don’t like it, boycott.
What does it means being « Ai-first » and « non political » because from where I stand from it’s a big political choice choosing AI over the security of your clientele
By “non-political” he means pro-MAGA.
Maybe the data leaks from not having humans secure the data will be fun to play with.
Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄
So basically Abandon Ship if you use Grindr.
AI is only as good as a sum of its human created algorithms and its human created training sets.
Which means, there’s no escaping the influence of politics; AI just means it will be permanently skewed and not as responsive to current political events.
The training sets aren’t all human created. They have models that feed other models training data. That doesn’t change your point, but you should know it’s worse than you think.
That’s just pedantic. Those other models were also either trained on human created data, or other models themselves… and those other models… etc etc etc.
When you go back far enough, it’s all human created data. The person you responded to didn’t spell all of that out because they didn’t need to to make their point.
No kidding. I know it doesn’t change their point. You could tell by the way I said it doesn’t change their point. The original commenter might not have known it’s to the point of models consuming their own synthetic data. They may have learned something.
I didn’t say it changed their point. I said it was pedantic.
