TBH a lot of what they describe sounds like “oldschool” AI. Similarity ranking, categorization, profiling, things outside the domain of LLMs. It’s stuff Google and others have been doing with “AI” adtech for decades.
Maybe the CEO is just hammering the AI buzzword.
I think a 2025 CEO is required to sprinkle references to AI into every earnings call and strategy/board meeting like they had to in the late Nineties regarding Y2K.
Grindr itself has been doing that. But likely they will also start selling training datasets to LLM companies.
Computer, locate all DTF twink switches within 25 miles
Arison said that, with consent, the app could explain “why it made sense” for people to speak to other users on the app, making them “much more willing to open a conversation.”
wtf does that even mean? And why does it require an LLM?
You should talk to this guy, he’s a sweetie—shows profile of random daddy looking to fist.
Grindr has become so bad, toxic and ad riddled that i wouldn’t mind offloading all online cruising to an LLM. But I also wouldn’t never pay a cent to this company.
