Dr. Raffaele Ciriello

that AI gives you potential matches.

So from that point of view, my reaction was, I mean, it's curious, it's kind of like predictable, right?

We kind of knew something like this would be happening.

It's still just weird to see how this is all developing.

And I'm excited to talk about this because there are probably some benefits, but also a lot of concerns.

I do want to acknowledge some benefits, right?

So, I mean, if carefully designed, this could potentially lead to, you know, more tailored, better dating experiences.

I do think that there might be a positive use case for, you know, people that face certain accessibility barriers like social anxiety, neurodivergence.

or historically marginalized groups that haven't done so well on dating apps, that could potentially increase inclusion.

I do want to be a little bit optimistic.

I do want to also say that that's not usually how these things develop, right?

But there is the potential for that at least.

And potentially also from a safety perspective, it might actually be good because you could introduce some filters and the AI could detect predatory behavior or it could protect young people, especially minors and so on from exploitation, which is, of course, all of these are good things.

Now, I have a lot more to say about the concerns.

yeah let's chat about that to me this looks like the typical platform dynamics um which some people have termed excuse the language and right so this is the typical dynamic where you roll out the platform at first it's kind of free it's new everybody is excited about it you put a lot of data in it and then you lock people in and

And then you make things more expensive and then you make things more extractive because the users are actually your customer and are not your customer.

They are your product, right?

So I think this is what's happening with Bumble.

So I think from a profit perspective, they're probably doing all right.

It's not like the market is going to go away.