"I don't think that an AI chatbot should be your friend or certainly not your boyfriend or girlfriend," Hinge CEO Justin ...

McLeod discusses the app’s human-first approach, its collaboration with Esther Perel, and how AI could reshape the search for ...

Hinge has long said it was planning on integrating more artificial intelligence into helping daters work on their profiles and find dates. In the past, AI was often used for platforms’ safety ...

But 63 percent of Hinge daters told the app in a survey that they have difficulty knowing what to include in their profile. What may result is generic, one-word, and cliched responses.

Of course, there are many surface-level prompts Hinge users can use, however, adding prompts to your profile can increase your chances of getting matched and actually securing dates.

Instead, he says, Hinge creates an individualized “taste profile” for users by tracking who they like and who likes them back. These factors are weighted equally by the app, according to McLeod.

I put the images on my profile for one week each, rotating them out every Monday, alongside five of my actual, non-AI generated photos to see how they would stack up — tallying every like and ...