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Dating apps are relying more on algorithms than ever, influencing not just who you meet, but what you say. Unsplash<\/p>\n\t\tDating apps are relying more on algorithms than ever, influencing not just who you meet, but what you say. Unsplash<\/p>\n
A.I. is reshaping online dating, from recommending matches on Tinder<\/a> to helping users break the ice<\/a> on Hinge. Love-seekers now navigate platforms where algorithms increasingly guide their decisions. Done well, these tools can improve the experience and lead to better matches; done poorly, they risk drowning out authentic human communication.<\/p>\n At Match Group<\/a>\u2014the parent company of Tinder, Hinge, Match.com and several other dating apps\u2014CEO Spencer Rascoff<\/a> and CFO Steven Bailey<\/a> are accelerating internal A.I. adoption. The company has given all 2,300 employees access to tools like Claude and hosted an \u201cA.I. day,\u201d where employees trained on the technology and built their own tools as part of a contest.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to be an A.I.-native company as quickly as possible,\u201d Bailey told Observer.<\/p>\n Bailey, a longtime Match Group executive, has held leadership roles across the company since 2012, including senior vice president of financial planning and business operations and CFO of Match Group Americas.<\/p>\n Across the tech industry, companies are rapidly increasing A.I. spending. Executives are pushing engineers to fully utilize these tools, fueling a phenomenon known as \u201ctokenmaxxing.\u201d<\/a> Uber<\/a>, for example, reportedly burned through its A.I. budget in just four months, while Nvidia<\/a> CEO Jensen Huang has said he wouldn\u2019t be surprised if a senior engineer spends the equivalent of half their salary on tokens.<\/p>\n At Match, early A.I. use came without strict limits. Now, the company is entering what Bailey calls its \u201cROI phase,\u201d focusing on efficiency. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to constrain A.I. use, but make sure it\u2019s being used in an efficient and effective way,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got to find a way to pay for all this.\u201d<\/p>\n To manage costs, Match has introduced \u201cspeed bumps,\u201d or token limits, across the organization. It has set one threshold for technical employees and a lower one for non-technical staff. Employees who hit the limit must request additional tokens from their managers.<\/p>\n Bailey said 100 percent of engineers now use A.I. to write code, with most code generated by A.I. and reviewed by humans. Engineers at Tinder are producing and shipping roughly twice as much code as they were a few quarters ago. The average engineer spends about $600 per month on A.I. tools, compared with roughly $50 for non-engineers, Bailey said. Top engineers, however, can spend as much as $3,000 monthly.<\/p>\n The spending comes as Match pushes A.I. to improve user experience and reduce \u201cswipe fatigue.\u201d\u00a0Two-thirds of Tinder\u2019s improvements this year have focused on its algorithms, while Hinge\u2019s A.I.-driven matching system, rolled out a few quarters ago, has increased matches by 15 percent.<\/p>\n Hinge has also introduced \u201cprompt feedback,\u201d a feature that helps users improve responses to profile questions like \u201cwhat\u2019s your favorite beach?\u201d or \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite vacation?\u201d<\/p>\n Bailey said men, in particular, often struggle to write prompt answers that are engaging or distinctive. The tool doesn\u2019t generate responses outright but encourages users to expand and refine their answers.<\/p>\n Still, the shift to becoming A.I.-native comes with tradeoffs. To offset rising A.I. costs, Match has slowed hiring. Bailey said the move is intended both to fund A.I. investments and to reassess staffing needs as the company evolves.<\/p>\n \u201cThe roles we\u2019re going to need are going to be different once we become A.I.-native than what we needed even just six months ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n However, going A.I-native isn\u2019t without its challenges. In the company\u2019s effort to pay for its transformation, Match\u2019s leadership has decided to slow hiring. Bailey adds the reason is to pay for the increased cost of A.I. tools and to get a better understanding of headcount needs as Match becomes an A.I.-enabled organization.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2028\u201cThe roles we\u2019re going to need are going to be different once we become AI-native than what we needed even just six months ago,\u201d Bailey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dating apps are relying more on algorithms than ever, influencing not just who you meet, but what you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,52890,25,309,21192,6561,42972,340,58,44260,1109,56139,56138,134,53119,5411,52889],"class_list":["post-108724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-all-features","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-business-interviews","tag-interviews","tag-match-group","tag-media","tag-nvidia","tag-online-dating","tag-social-media","tag-spencer-rascoff","tag-steven-bailey","tag-technology","tag-the-new-power-class-weekly-features","tag-uber","tag-weekly-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}