I’m currently going through a painful divorce so of course I’m starting to look into dating apps as a superficial coping mechanism.
It seems to me that even the modern dating apps like Tinder and Bumble could be made a lot better with a tiny bit of machine learning. After a couple thousand swipes (which doesn’t take long), I would think that a machine learning system could get a pretty good sense of my tastes and perhaps some metric of my minimum standards of attractiveness. This is particularly true for a system that has access to all the swiping data across the whole platform.
Since I swipe completely based on superficial appearance without ever reading the bio (like most people), the system wouldn’t need to take the biographical information into account, though I suppose it could use that information as well.
The ideal system would quickly learn my preferences in both appearance and personal information and then automatically match me up with the top likely candidates. I know these apps keep track of the response rates of individuals, so matches who tend not to respond often (probably due to being very generally desirable) would be penalized in your personal matchup ranking—again, something machine learning could handle easily.
I find myself wondering why this doesn’t already exist.
I appreciate you are working under challenging circumstances but surely moderators should be permitted and willing to remove undesirable content. Please, yes.
Even an empty forum is preferable to embarrassments like this post series.