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[–] cwood@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

You know how sometimes you use a grocery app and it's fairly obvious that the people writing them don't spend time in grocery stores? I'm getting that same impression here.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"if we don’t do it, someone else will"

Ohh yes, if Grindr doesn't feed Grindr users's chats, which only the users involved and possibly Grindr itself are presumably privy to, to an LLM, someone else will.

[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

And, of course, we know that once one company uses those chats, it becomes literally impossible for anyone else to use them.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago

App that is plagued by bot accounts thinks that adding more bot-nature will improve quality

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 16 points 6 months ago

Now let us embark on a journey and delve right into your asshole and explore the rich vibrant tapestry of your colon

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does the (straight) CEO not realize how easy it is to get laid off Grindr? It's an Ok Cupid-style grid, and there's a profile flag you can set that literally says "yes please, send me NSFW pics". You can literally send you hole/pole to everyone who would want to see it in a 3 mile radius

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

lol i wasn't aware he was actually straight

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Actually I was wrong, the guy is gay and married. But he IS a trumper, so I probably got mixed up.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

can we declare him straight anyway

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

The representative of the fascist party in Germany says she's "lesbian but not queer". I think it's the same case.

[–] maol@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Grindr has been used to out people everywhere from Palestine to Egypt to Chechnya to America, so training a chaotic, insecure LLM on user data seems like the privacy disaster from hell.

[–] jlow 12 points 6 months ago

Today in "Fuck this timeline, get me out of this universe, please!" 🫠

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh for FUCKS SAKE do not let AI in the way of my GENITALS

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Citizen, the computer has removed the need for the pounding sodomy, are you not delighted

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I am delighted! For I won the victory over myself! I fuck Big Brother 🤡🤪🍆✨🐽🎉

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

OK I've got it right! we do DRM, right, but for condoms

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

this is just zizek's perfect date but gay and with chatbots

I don't think "going to a random place the algorithm told you to and having sex with whoever else is there" is nearly as common a fetish as it would have to be for this to be anything approaching a viable concept.

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago
[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Covert conversion therapy by setting you up with the absolute worst humanity has to offer.