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I don't understand. Bots aren't that big of a deal, and it's not unlike encountering a woman who doesn't want to meet up: you find out very quickly and you move

I don't understand. Bots aren't that big of a deal, and it's not unlike encountering a woman who doesn't want to meet up: you find out very quickly and you move on. Until bots are going on dates and sleeping with you, I don't see how online dating is "powered by bots." You glaze over them the same way you ignore a spam post on a forum.

sandworm101 8y ago
https://www.scambusters.org/chatbot.html https://www.scambusters.org/chatbot.html >>“Chatbots” — computer programs that use artificial intelligence to strike up conversations with dating site users — enable scammers to “talk” with multiple potential victims at once. They’re particularly active on the Tinder dating app, which employs users’ locations and Facebook profiles to try to link them with nearby online romance seekers. The big takeaway from the Ashley Madison hack was that nobody was actually having any affairs. All those men were paying for a dream. There were next to zero real women on the site. It was all bots and fake accounts. And that company, ironically a Canadian company, was being called a potential pre-IPO unicorn.
- wild_preference 8y ago
  I'm not sure what you're trying to prove. That article even enumerates the trivial ways in which you can detect these scams. Is email "powered by bots" because spam/phishing/scams happen there, too? Seems like a worthless distinction to me. What about in real life when someone scams you by asking for bus money but they didn't actually need it for the bus? Hell, maybe you even have to mess up a few times before you learn. So what? It's pretty easy to evaluate the utility of a dating service: are you actually meeting people? That's not something bots can fake, yet. Have you actually used Tinder and found yourself talking to a bot enough times for it to challenge your entire objective? Because I have a very hard time believing that just like I doubt you've fallen for an adultfriendfinder "girls in your area" advertisement more than once. Some live, human women on dating apps even ask you to Venmo them some money. Well, you unmatch with them and move on. No dating app can give you an unending consecutive succession of mates that will blossom into an in-person meet-up and then a relationship. Real life can't give you that, either. You already have to deal with the interactions that fizzle out, whether it's someone who never even responded to you, a chat bot that drops you an adultfriendfinder link, or someone you ended up not clicking with after all. That's life.

sandworm101 8y ago

https://www.scambusters.org/chatbot.html https://www.scambusters.org/chatbot.html >>“Chatbots” — computer programs that use artificial intelligence to strike up conversations with dating site users — enable scammers to “talk” with multiple potential victims at once. They’re particularly active on the Tinder dating app, which employs users’ locations and Facebook profiles to try to link them with nearby online romance seekers. The big takeaway from the Ashley Madison hack was that nobody was actually having any affairs. All those men were paying for a dream. There were next to zero real women on the site. It was all bots and fake accounts. And that company, ironically a Canadian company, was being called a potential pre-IPO unicorn.

wild_preference 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to prove. That article even enumerates the trivial ways in which you can detect these scams. Is email "powered by bots" because spam/phishing/scams happen there, too? Seems like a worthless distinction to me. What about in real life when someone scams you by asking for bus money but they didn't actually need it for the bus? Hell, maybe you even have to mess up a few times before you learn. So what? It's pretty easy to evaluate the utility of a dating service: are you actually meeting people? That's not something bots can fake, yet. Have you actually used Tinder and found yourself talking to a bot enough times for it to challenge your entire objective? Because I have a very hard time believing that just like I doubt you've fallen for an adultfriendfinder "girls in your area" advertisement more than once. Some live, human women on dating apps even ask you to Venmo them some money. Well, you unmatch with them and move on. No dating app can give you an unending consecutive succession of mates that will blossom into an in-person meet-up and then a relationship. Real life can't give you that, either. You already have to deal with the interactions that fizzle out, whether it's someone who never even responded to you, a chat bot that drops you an adultfriendfinder link, or someone you ended up not clicking with after all. That's life.