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
Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”
Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.them.us/story/grindr-ai-first-ceo-interview-artificial-intelligence
Comments
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
s@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Politics is when you favor certain people. AI-first is when you favor imaginary people.
Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
So religion, but for techbros?
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks 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.
Red_October@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t discount the number of ultraconservatives who secretly use the app and don’t want to feel oppressed!
ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe the data leaks from not having humans secure the data will be fun to play with.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
By “non-political” he means pro-MAGA.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
You beat me to it. I was gonna say “non-political” means “make it harder to spot and avoid the Republicans”.
JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s Grindr, almost everything is in the back end.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
sometimes the front too.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Trying to get all they can out of the last great tech bubble before total collapse.
neblem@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The app’s already made up of mostly fake accounts. There’s more bots on Grindr than actual people.
kboos1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All I read was “data collection first”
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nobody but scammers even uses grindr anymore. This is to impress shareholders, not users. The users migrated to sniffies already.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I… wh… sniffies?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s furries that go as Snuffleupagus.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Post more than your chest. It’s not the scammers. Believe me.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The training sets aren’t all human created. They have models that feed other models training data.
nulluser@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So basically Abandon Ship if you use Grindr.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 3 weeks 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.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
fuck*
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Peter Thiel says hi