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Why Nobody Likes Dating Now

The promise of dating apps never materialized

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Daniel Cox
May 16, 2024
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At last week’s Bloomberg Tech Summit in San Francisco, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd explained how AI would become more integrated into the date search process. “There is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge[s] . . . and then you don’t have to talk to 600 people,” she said. It sounds utterly dysto…

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