Tinder's new AI will pick out your best photos for your dating profile

Date:
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:30:39 +0000

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Tinder releases AI photo selection tool to help choose dating profile photos

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Choosing the best photos for your dating profile can be tough, so Tinder created a virtual curator to help you out. The artificial
intelligence-powered Photo Selector will analyze your shortlist of potential photos directly from your phone and suggest those its model predicts would present you at your best.

To use the feature, a Tinder user takes a selfie for the AI to know what they look like, then permits the app to look at photos on their phone. The AI
model picks out images for the user to review and decide whether to add them to their profile. Photo Selector is coming first to Tinder users in the U.S. this month, with international rollouts later this summer.

Tinder hopes the AI tool will smooth the path for setting up a dating
profile. According to its own Online Opinion survey of young single people, 52% struggle to pick a profile image for dating apps, and single people under 25 spend 33 minutes on average picking a photo for their dating app profile. Perhaps its unsurprising then that 68% of them welcome the idea of AI assistance in picking their photos.

Though Tinder doesnt outright say so, the study did suggest straight men in particular need the help. Straight single women find profiles with at least four images highlighting a mans personality more attractive, and more than
one face photo ups a guys chance of matching by 71%.

Were proud to be the first dating app to roll out an AI tool that can make
the profile-building experience significantly easier -- an area we know is
one of the hardest parts of dating, Tinder CEO Faye Iosotaluno said in a statement . As the category leader, were pushing ourselves to define the industrys best use cases for meaningful consumer AI integrations, Discreet AI

Tinder didnt make much of any privacy issues with regard to the new feature, even though access and use of personal photos with AI models may make some nervous. Users might inadvertently expose sensitive or private images by granting the app access to their camera rolls. The company has data
protection policies and security measures in place, but when it comes to something as intimate as photos for dating apps, its easy to imagine some hesitating without enough transparency and trust regarding how the images are used, stored, and protected.

Thats on top of the facial recognition element. While it is necessary to curate the photos successfully, the biometric data involved is arguably even more sensitive. Tinder may have to make an extra effort to assure users their data is anonymized when the AI processes it and that its not shared with
third parties. Still, as AI assistants and related tools become more ubiquitous, ones that help peoples online profiles pop, whether on dating
apps or anywhere else, will likely become very common.

As demonstrated by our Photo Selector feature, were developing AI tech to assist you in making decisions, not to make them for you, Iosotaluno said.
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