Or maybe when you’re a grown woman you’re not supposed to ask potential dates “What’s your favorite dinosaur?” The first “man” I tried it on unmatched me soon after. Match Group’s communications staff being little help, I decided to try conversing with the bots instead, hoping to understand how they work and what they’re supposed to accomplish.Ī friend who works in machine learning suggested I lob random but highly specific questions at them, something like “What’s your favorite dinosaur?”, to try to trip up the chatbots. Hinge seemed to be the most straightforward of the bunch, until it wasn’t. I was invited to try Raya, and I’m sorry to report that I have absolutely zero sexy celebrity DMs to share with you.
I never got into Tinder, because I just can’t, and that phrase alone should be evidence enough of my elder-millennialism, which explains why I never got into Tinder. I’m one of many millions who have bumbled their way through Bumble or taken a swing on Hinge over the past couple years.
More recently, as usage of dating apps has soared during the pandemic, these services have been targeted by sophisticated social engineering operations known as pig-butchering scams. In the early days of Tinder, people complained about chatbots that would encourage them to click on suspect game links. The potential for romance makes people more vulnerable than in other digital contexts. Hinge surely is not the only dating app riddled with digital fakes. On dating app Hinge, which claims to serve those seeking life-long connections, there appear to be a lot of these. And then there are the unnaturally smooth selfies and stilted messages that suggest an AI-generated facsimile of a person. There’s the realization that the flesh-and-blood person you’ve spent time with is inauthentic in some way, the old-fashioned bluffing of the Homo sapiens mating game. In the land of love, there are fakes, and there are fakes.
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