Why can’t people just have an app that prioritises what it was originally supposed to do?
Look at how often grindr crashes during right wing events. It’s already political, maybe just not in the back end.
It’s Grindr, almost everything is in the back end.
Just like straight capitalists, he doesn’t care about the politics of the people that are using his service as long as he gets their money.
What does it means being « Ai-first » and « non political » because from where I stand from it’s a big political choice choosing AI over the security of your clientele
Maybe the data leaks from not having humans secure the data will be fun to play with.
Politics is when you favor certain people. AI-first is when you favor imaginary people.
Depending on where you look, Grindr CEO George Arison’s net worth is $20–80 million.
He joins a growing list of gay executives hell-bent on proving that enshittification isn’t just for the straights.
The crazy part is they basically own this space. An upstart app with AI that can turn the paradigm on its head is highly unlikely.
I’d imagine they’re basically like steam. Just keep printing the money if you don’t fuxk up.
Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄
AI is only as good as a sum of its human created algorithms and its human created training sets.
Which means, there’s no escaping the influence of politics; AI just means it will be permanently skewed and not as responsive to current political events.
The training sets aren’t all human created. They have models that feed other models training data. That doesn’t change your point, but you should know it’s worse than you think.
