pepemysurprised

> Obviously it’s Tinder posting the fake profiles because they want men using their software.

I have used Tinder a lot, but not in the US. Where I am it's obvious that 95%+ of profiles are fake. However, I don't believe they are created by Tinder themselves. It's a combination of scams/bots, people looking for followers, prostitutes, fake profiles to try Tinder, and other stuff.

On Tinder's side, a few things happening:

- Tinder actively surfaces old/abandoned profiles to make you waste your swipes and super swipes. It's safe to assume that the vast majority of profiles you swipe on are no longer active or signed up once but never used Tinder.

- Tinder picks a subset of profiles (again, mostly abandoned ones) as "upsells" to make you buy likes. They are even labeled "upsell" in their API and it's the same profiles over and over again when you sign up.

- Most people that you swipe on will never see your profile.

While Tinder themselves does probably not create profiles, they are doing absolutely everything they can to make you spend money and give you the minimum amount of real matches they can get away with. Their goal is to give you the minimum to keep you on the app as long as possible, nothing more.

The system is completely broken and Tinder is extremely malicious. It's almost a scam. Less than ~1% of what you see are actually real people actively looking for matches. I am still using it because even 1% is better than nothing, but I hate the company with a passion.

Also, it has gotten significantly worse in the past ~5 years.

For many RL problems you don't really need GPUs because the networks used are relatively simple compared to supservised learning, and most simulations are CPU-bound. Many RL problems are constrained by data so that running simulations (CPU) is the bottleneck, not the network.

This nonsense doesn't even have to do anything with AI, it's just PR and a response to the current cultural environment.

AI Explorables: Big ideas in PR to make Google look like a good-willed company.

This only exists because someone needed to get promoted for working on "diversity efforts"