Tinder's AI wants to search your smartphone's photo gallery to create your profile.

As in many other fields, generative AI has burst into the dating app sector like an elephant in a porcelain shop.

Slippery slope

Despite this, the dating industry is determined to continue exploiting this technology. Tinder has decided to experiment with a feature in Australia: the app analyzes the photos stored on the user's smartphone to help them create their profile. The idea is to select the most appropriate pictures, and especially to identify interests: animals, activities, favorite foods...

« If I have only one photo of a dog out of 20,000, that doesn't make me someone who particularly likes dogs », explains Mark Kantor, Tinder's product manager, to the site 404media. Obviously, he immediately raises potentially awkward questions based on the content of the photo gallery...

Tinder explains that the feature applies a filter to explicit images and blurs faces. Especially, all processing is supposed to take place locally on the device, without storage on Tinder's servers. Moreover, the AI does not automatically publish anything: it simply offers suggestions that the user can accept or reject.

« It's up to you to decide what you're comfortable sharing with Tinder », continues the executive. These safeguards are nevertheless not enough to reassure the most anxious. The Photos app on a smartphone can indeed contain sensitive information, such as photos of personal documents and intimate photos. The big problem here is that the user cannot select the photos to be excluded from the AI analysis. This issue is even more important because dating apps have already experienced security flaws and data leaks.

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Source : 404media