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.
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.
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Peter Thiel says hi
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.
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.
‘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.
Trying to get all they can out of the last great tech bubble before total collapse.
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 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 furries that go as Snuffleupagus.
Post more than your chest. It’s not the scammers. Believe me.
It’s still very popular where I live.
Lots of conservatives there?
Not that I know.
Look at how often grindr crashes during right wing events. It’s already political, maybe just not in the back end.
It’s Grindr, almost everything is in the back end.
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.
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.
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.
All I read was “data collection first”
Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄
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.
