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Bumble dropped its women-message-first rule. Now dating apps are betting on AI to fix what swiping broke
After a decade of swipe-right culture, dating platforms are in crisis. Bumble just scrapped its founding rule. The industry's new hope is artificial intelligence, but the evidence that it helps real people find real relationships is thin.
A Researcher Says Virality Is Lying to You About What's Actually Trending
NYU cyber-ethnographer Ruby Thelot argues the internet has splintered into isolated bubbles where engineered viral moments rack up millions of views without touching real culture. His book lands this autumn.
Fed up with swiping, Gen Z students are letting an AI pick their dates
Ditto, a text-message matchmaking service with 150,000 sign-ups, skips the app entirely and sends college students on a blind date every Wednesday at 7 PM.
An AI App Wants to Plan Your Anniversary So Your Boyfriend Doesn't Have To
Orchid's viral promo showed an AI doing relationship labour for a checked-out partner. Therapists say that's not a fix. It's a delay.
Hinge's founder raises $18 million for Overtone, an AI dating service built around voice
Justin McLeod is leaving swipe culture behind. His new company uses AI to make a small number of carefully chosen introductions, not to feed an endless scroll.