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Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by andrey-p »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #9

All were in agreement that it is not creepy, though some felt it was borderline It definitely is creepy, though.

I guess creepiness is a bit of a sliding scale. Maybe somehow the bot also managed to get through to a subset of women on Tinder who don't find this creepy?

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by 3beard »

nemothekid wrote: post #5

I feel the human race has made a rather amusing step forward to rule-by-algorithm. 30 years ago this would be dystopian, today its a byproduct of a mish-mash of open source libraries.

I wish I could work myself up into some kind of indignation, but what I really believe is this: if you willingly submit yourself to the cesspits of human banality (i.e. Facebook, Tinder and all the likes), you pretty much deserve all the crap that will be unloaded on you.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by marvin »

withdavidli wrote: post #4

Probably the only bot that would appeal to women with its preference setting. It's mostly guys using the bots and filtering after the matches. Love reading the Tinder app reviews: "this thing is broken, been using it for a week and no matches. I ain't that ugly." I always thought Tinder could monetize by having auto swipe and an undo option.

This phenomenon is endemic to dating culture in general. It's strange that the large majority of young Western women who have ridiculously fickle preferences, don't have the insight to realize the consequences of their behavior (or even notice the behavior in the first place). It makes the experience bad for 90% of the participants.

Not a bad thought to have separate interfaces by gender, maybe there is something in this idea that could be explored. Although at that point you're sort of codifying shitty gender stereotypes, which might be a transgression that's even worse.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by djloche »

Automate the matching, then the conversations, then the meet-up schedule.

TinderPro could be a paid service built on top that has you swipe left/right for x pictures and then takes it from there and does all the rest of the legwork. You pay $$ per month and based on your settings, it schedules dates for you (based on openings on your linked calendar app).

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by kehrlann »

I am not too creeped out by the concept of this bot (actually, I find the whole idea amusing). I can understand why people would find it creepy, but I feel that the creepiness comes from Tinder rather than the bot ... It's only possible because of Tinder and the way it makes users interact with each other.

Not a Tinder user myself, so I guess I'm biased in this case.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Post by noonespecial »

3beard wrote: post #12
nemothekid wrote: post #5

I feel the human race has made a rather amusing step forward to rule-by-algorithm. 30 years ago this would be dystopian, today its a byproduct of a mish-mash of open source libraries.

I wish I could work myself up into some kind of indignation, but what I really believe is this: if you willingly submit yourself to the cesspits of human banality (i.e. Facebook, Tinder and all the likes), you pretty much deserve all the crap that will be unloaded on you.

So there's the dystopia. The humans become the nearly identical constantly replaceable consumable that the algorithms steer across a dozen generations, mating them and connecting them together to father the algorithms' own silicon ends whatever those happen to turn out to be.

I hope they don't like paperclips.

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