More transparency around the existence of AI settings
I have had my name in Grindr set to "checkAIsettings" for several months now. I still get roughly 10 people reaching out to me every day thanking me that I let them know about the existence of those settings. I found out because there was a one-time notice that nearly everyone missed. Don't blame the users for not paying attention. If this many people are reaching out to me, either you don't realize your approach was ineffective, or your approach was intentionally malicious. Please introduce more apparent and integrated ways of notifying users about the existence of the AI settings.
Connor Williams
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If Grindr has created fake profiles that leverage LLMs or other chatbot technology to interact with users, then yes absolutely that needs to be consented to as well. I am referring to the settings that enable Grindr to use the sensitive personal information of users to train unknown models. If Grindr was more open about what these models were used for, like perhaps trying to understand racial bias with it, then I may be more supportive of such collection. But if they plan to use it to create things like the aforementioned chatbots, then since that serves no societal purpose and would only worsen the loneliness epidemic, then no data collection should be taking place at all. Thus, users need to be aware about these data collection settings.
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Sanchizes chinazes commented
The key point is that people should know whether they're talking to a person or a system — not because AI is inherently bad, but because consent requires knowing what you're consenting to. A visible toggle plus a label in chat would solve most of it. I noticed a similar point at https://spinking-casinos.uk and it was well argued.