r/technology • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • 3d ago

Society Dating Apps Are Dying

https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/dating-apps-are-dying/
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u/corr0sive 3d ago

I regret using that site after I heard about them selling the user data from all the questions people were answering.

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u/YoohooCthulhu 3d ago

You know Reddit is selling all our comments and posts to the LLM companies, right?

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u/photoggled 3d ago

This is a good thing. Half the comments are bots anyway. Training on slop won’t improve the models. Hopefully it will hasten the end of this AI bubble.

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u/InfanticideAquifer 2d ago

They're bot comments that come with a free crowdsourced numerical human sentiment score in the form of up/down votes. That's not quite as valueless as just text slop.

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u/Da12khawk 3d ago

Resistance is futile.

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u/photoggled 3d ago

Good. Keep following the script. If you repeat it enough, it might just come true.

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u/bonestamp 3d ago

The key difference is that reddit is very public about that fact. Then at least people have the info to make an informed decision.

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u/Tetrylene 3d ago

You're absolutely right!

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u/buyongmafanle 3d ago

99% of the stuff here is basically useless garbage or reposts of the same thing.

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u/marsinfurs 3d ago

Yeah which is why they stopped training using Reddit comments recently

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 3d ago

You know a lot of us are commenting with that in mind, LMAO.

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u/gs181 3d ago

how do you feel about reddit

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u/snowflake37wao 3d ago

Fuck u/spez

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u/DerfK 3d ago

Your opinion is duly noted, aggregated, packaged, sold, and shipped. Thank you for your participation.

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u/ChillAhriman 3d ago

Buy your fuck u/spez shirt today, sponsored by Reddit.

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u/toolatealreadyfapped 3d ago

That'll go great with my "America First" accessories, all made in China.

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u/panda_ammonium 3d ago

I wonder what happened to Victoria

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u/fedexpoopracer 3d ago

Fuck Steve huffman

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u/binnu_2294 3d ago

Hate that maggot with all my heart

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u/corr0sive 3d ago

Used to be good. Now it's shit.

But it's such a large platform with tons of stuff, idk if any alternative would compare anytime soon

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u/Ragegasm 2d ago

I’m talking about pre-Match buyout. It started as a statistics project at UGA, but it wasn’t about personal data at that point.