Dr. Raffaele Ciriello

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Apps don't make a profit if you find the love of your life.

And the way to make a profit and money is by keeping you engaged.

Thanks so much for this awesome introduction.

I'm really excited to be here.

So it was actually funny because I was just discussing it a few days earlier with my PhD students, Sarah Rubinstein and Angelina Chen.

And my first reaction to this was actually to call it a catfishers paradise.

And then my students said, hey, it's actually a chatfishers paradise, right?

So that's kind of like what this is.

Imagine you could use this technology to have millions of dates digitally at once.

And you could just fish in the ocean of singles or people on dating platforms with much greater precision.

And if you're someone who's into scamming people, catfishing, betraying them, or just exploiting them or just generally being a bad person, well, you will find a lot of creative ways to exploit the system.

Now, I'm sure or at least hopeful that Bumble and the likes will have people working on this, right?

So you can kind of come up with

security filters and, but it's always an arms race.

So there's always people who will figure out more innovative ways of gaming that and that will just be part of that conversation.

So a lot of people in that tech space seem to have the idea that, you know, let's just throw some AI at it, it's going to make everything better.

And the idea is,

in the long term to move to a model where you basically, you know, give some info to your AI dating assistant or a digital clone of yourself and then have that digital concierge check out other people's digital concierge and see if they match.

And so all you have to do is you put up a little bit of information in there and then