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.
Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”
Submitted 1 day ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.them.us/story/grindr-ai-first-ceo-interview-artificial-intelligence
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SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Peter Thiel says hi
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 day ago
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
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
By “non-political” he means pro-MAGA.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 minutes ago
You beat me to it. I was gonna say “non-political” means “make it harder to spot and avoid the Republicans”.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 day ago
Anything catering to the queer community will automatically be political on account of a lot of people still working to kill us.
I don’t even see how AI is going to be applicable in Grindr. Such a weird decision.
s@piefed.world 1 day ago
Politics is when you favor certain people. AI-first is when you favor imaginary people.
Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 21 hours ago
So religion, but for techbros?
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe the data leaks from not having humans secure the data will be fun to play with.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.
Can we just stop with this whole “AI First” shit? Can we just stop? We don’t want our apps to be AI, they know this, we know this, but they don’t care.
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 hours ago
I wonder who sees something “AI” and sees it as a plus. For fucks sake, the other day i saw a gas station sandwich that read: made with an AI recipe. Who is this for? Is it just buzzwords, like HD? Where people sold HD sunglasses or HD pullovers.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I wonder who sees something “AI” and sees it as a plus.
CEOs and Investors who don’t know shit about fuck about tech and how it works but believe AI can solve their problems.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.
AI is pretty good at fucking people in the ass.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Trying to get all they can out of the last great tech bubble before total collapse.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
‘AI First’ means AI comes before the users, which can be true for any service. It was never an app for you. Just an app that you happened to use.
JaymesRS@piefed.world 1 day ago
Look at how often grindr crashes during right wing events. It’s already political, maybe just not in the back end.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s Grindr, almost everything is in the back end.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
sometimes the front too.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Just like straight capitalists, he doesn’t care about the politics of the people that are using his service as long as he gets their money.
neblem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The app’s already made up of mostly fake accounts. There’s more bots on Grindr than actual people.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Nobody but scammers even uses grindr anymore. This is to impress shareholders, not users. The users migrated to sniffies already.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Post more than your chest. It’s not the scammers. Believe me.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I… wh… sniffies?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
It’s furries that go as Snuffleupagus.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
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.
kboos1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All I read was “data collection first”
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 1 day ago
Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The training sets aren’t all human created. They have models that feed other models training data.
nulluser@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 day ago
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.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So basically Abandon Ship if you use Grindr.
devolution@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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 is the apps main base.