Aftersigning a deal with OpenAI in 2024, Tinder is now featuring AI characters complete with generated personalities.
Even though it launched on April Fools, the game is real.
Tinder invited me to test it out early before launch.
An image of a hand holding a phone, the new The Game Game feature on Tinder is visible.© © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
The game is built around OpenAIs voice to voice model.
Users are supposed to use their natural charms to entice these AI-generated characters into a date.
The app rewards players for curiosity, warmth, listening, and asking questions.
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More than anything, Tinder told us to do what feels natural.
Is the AI any less real than the hunky male lead in every Hallmark movie?
Chloe came out speaking in the most Kentucky-fried accent Ive heard from an AI.
It was like listening to Foghorn Leghorn from Looney Toons as voiced by Tina Feys Liz Lemon from30 Rock.
My own attempts at scoring an AI hookup didnt fare much better.
That wasnt wine you spilled, that was battery acid.
The AI apologized, told me to go see a doctor, and then ended the chat.
The characters are parodies of humans.
The AI affected a not-too-subtle Brooklyn accent and apologized too gracefully for a standard New Yorker.
I told her I should just get an Uber, but she was insistent.
The meet cute was going well, apparently.
Tinder gave me nearly full marks for my awkward attempts at conversation.
Tinder stressed users shouldnt take this seriously.
This uses GPT-4o models to make characters go back and forth at speeds that edge close to human speech.
Still, Tinder seems like the worst app for this kind of AI simulation.
The flame app is all about volume of conversations.
Just ask the guy who found his wife byusing ChatGPT to talk to 5,000 women.
Dating apps stress a machine-like process to finding dates.
Colloquially, these get lumped into the term the apps.
People suffering through the online dating scene boil it down to Im on the apps.
Pew Researchdatafrom 2023 shows how were more dependent on them for actually finding a long-term relationship.
According to that data, more than a third of us arepaying for the privilege.
Then, youre incentivized to start conversations based on prompts in fellow users dating profile.
Its a process as optimized to arrest attention as scrolling on TikTok.
Theres no chance for any kind of real meet cute situation while on the apps.
It was inevitable, is the opening line of Gabriel Garcia Marquez seminal novelLove in the Time of Cholera.
Love is a different kind of absurdity than OpenAIs and Tinders latest gimmick.
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