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Is there anything that can save digital dating from itself?

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Machine-learning features are prominent on Grindr 's product road map for 2025 .

Hinge CEO Justin McLeod promised the app would soon be using the tech for everything from making matches to AI coaching.

Tinder dropped a tool in 2024 designed to help you pick the best profile photos; Tinder plans to roll out AI -assisted matches later this year .

Some Grindr users are ambivalent about the app’s plans for AI features.

“I am philosophically very anti-AI ,” one user says.

Grindr user: “Part of relationship building—be it sexual, romantic, platonic—involves dealing with friction. I think the more organic approach is to not have AI involved.