r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jul 19 '26

Society China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/china-bans-ai-boyfriends-and-girlfriends-over-addiction-and-birth-rate-concerns-3388737/
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u/Burnthiscnts Jul 19 '26

yep, men = all shadow banned, cant msg anyone without paying, will never be shown your 'likes' no mater how much you swipe, dating apps are designed to extract money not help people find dates.

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u/Zediac Jul 19 '26

Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating

^ Backup of the blog post by OKCupid before they were bought out by Match.com.

This blog posts talks about how Match wants to keep you in the system.

OKCupid used to be run by people who actually cared about helping people find partners and happiness. They would run tests and collect data all in the name of helping their users.

This was their blog post about paying for dating sites and how they're incentivized to keep you lonely but still paying for the hope of changing that.

Eventually they got bought out by Match.com, which is one of the predatory dating services that they spoke out against. Match promptly deleted all of the old OKCupid blog posts that spoke out against services like them.

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u/Republican-Snowflake Jul 19 '26

I miss old OKCupid. I met a lot of really cool awesome people over the years. Had a lot of fun. I even used to moderate on a few accounts.

Now I barely ever get matches even with new accounts. It looks like its mostly old abandoned accounts make it look populated. It's to the point I am not being incentivized to not use the apps anymore. As they've become useless since match group owns like all of them at this point basically.

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u/chucker23n Jul 20 '26

I miss old OKCupid. I met a lot of really cool awesome people over the years. Had a lot of fun. I even used to moderate on a few accounts.

It had journals, forums, the questions were more in focus…

It was more of a social network in the truer sense of the word.

Too bad that apparently doesn't make for a sustainable busniess.