Facebook Dating tries using AI to end ‘swipe fatigue’

Facebook Dating is getting caller AI features to assistance users debar “swipe fatigue,” Meta announced today. The caller features see a caller “dating assistant” AI chatbot that helps you find imaginable matches arsenic good arsenic a caller “Meet Cute” diagnostic that automatically matches you with idiosyncratic utilizing a “personalized” algorithm.

With the dating assistant, you tin benignant retired circumstantial prompts to effort and lucifer up with definite types of people; Meta gives the illustration of “find maine a Brooklyn miss successful tech.” The adjunct tin besides assistance “level up your profile” oregon connection dating ideas. The chatbot volition beryllium disposable successful the Matches tab and is “gradually” rolling retired successful the US and Canada, Meta says.

The Meet Cute diagnostic volition brace you with idiosyncratic each week and is “ideal for anyone who’s bushed of swiping and is looking for a fresh, casual mode to grow their emblematic excavation of dating candidates,” Meta says. (OkCupid tried thing akin in 2013 with its Crazy Blind Date app.) Meta is “exploring” adding different clip frequencies for the recommendations and you tin opt retired of the Meet Cute if you like.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pushing to marque Facebook much “culturally influential” this year, with the institution besides making each Facebook videos reels and trying to cleanable up Facebook spam.