alt Hacker News> I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person.
I’ve long described dating apps as “distilling an entire person into a few curated photos and a snippet of text”. In all dating app profile advice I’ve ever seen, creativity, personality, and anything against the grain is highly discouraged. No wonder they barely work.
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ambicapter • today at 2:48 PM
So he fed millions of profiles into a summarization machine and was surprised to find no sharp edges? Crazy work.
i'd argue against that point to a degree. going against the grain does work, if you know who you're looking for and can send the right signals accordingly
it's that okcupid data about how the highly tattoo'd people tended to get the most negative responses, but also very strong responses from other seriously tat'd people
fly a flag, signal theory, etc.