Tinder Will Scan Your Gallery So Its AI Can Improve the Matches You See
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Tinder plans to scan users' galleries to improve its AI-powered matching, sparking concerns about data privacy and the accuracy of the technology.
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How would this work? It identifies just objects / places that imply interests?
Sounds like a blackbox that assumes I want to ski ... because some pics look "like" skiing or something. Or tries to say connect someone with their ex or people who look like their ex ...
Granted I suspect this is just AI for their sake / identifying faces and collecting mass data ...
Kinda. But collaborative filtering by the textbook definition tries to find the people who have those embedding and then match those nodes with other similar nodes.
So because you are a person who likes skiing, the system tries to find other people's existing preferences that likes skiing and match those to the items to show you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
Or the standard given a bunch of tags (from the instance segmentation) and find your ranked list of preferences. https://librecommender.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ has a list of 5-10 standard recommender algorithms.
Or use autogluon https://auto.gluon.ai/stable/tutorials/tabular/tabular-multi... where they take Meta's large repository of annotated-images (DINOv2) and use them to classify then do the recommendation system on tabular (database tables).
This stuff has been standard for years now.