First Jobs & Now Love Life? Bumble Founder Explains 'AI Dating', Internet Calls It Black Mirror Episode
With artificial intelligence taking over our lives, the future seems pretty unpredictable. While it surely unfiltered many of our jobs, looks like it might even just take over our dating lives!
Dating app Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd recently shared her two cents on the same and said that the application uses AI "to help create a more healthy and equitable" dating experience.
Ever since then, the internet is calling it the ¡®plot of a Black Mirror episode¡¯.?
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What Is AI Dating?
Whitney explained how it might work, she said during an interview,?
"Our focus with AI is to help create more healthy and equitable relationships. And that also starts with yourself. How can we actually teach you how to date? How can we help you show up in a better way? For example, you could, in the near future, be talking to your AI dating concierge and you could share your insecurities. 'I just came out of a breakup. I have commitment issues.' And it could help you train yourself into a better way of thinking about yourself. And then, it could give you productive tips for communicating with other people".
In fact, your "dating concierge could go and date for you," she further said, much to the chagrin of those present in the audience.?
"If you want to get really out there, there is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge. No, truly. And then, you don't have to talk to 600 people. It will scan all of San Francisco for you, and say, 'These are the three people you really ought to meet'."
Here¡¯s how the internet reacted:
Multiple corners of the internet collectively expressed the view that Whitney's statement resembles a scenario straight out of a 'Black Mirror' episode - ¡°literally a 'Black Mirror' episode. Like actually literally."
¡°Using AI to create a profile that matches someone else based on the type of person you are is one thing, but AI conversing with AI and dating companies having that data just sounds like a terrible dystopian future where nobody talks to anyone anymore,¡± commented a user.
Many found Whitney's comment rather "depressing".?
¡°Is it me or this is awful?¡± wrote a user.
¡°That's nonsense. It means no dating. Dating is actually about love, not about "best choice", wrote another user.
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What is Black Mirror?
'Black Mirror', a British anthology television series developed by Charlie Brooker, explores a range of genres, primarily set in near-future dystopian landscapes with speculative science fiction elements.
