Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of the popular dating app Bumble, recently revealed that artificial intelligence on the app will be leveraged to have users’ own personal AI “dating concierge” talk to hundreds of other AIs to find a match for them.

Herd said during the Bloomberg Technology Summit last week:

You could, in the near future, be talking to your AI dating concierge. You could share your insecurities. There is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierges.

If you want to get really out there, there is a world where your [AI] dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge. Truly. And then you don’t have to talk to 600 people. It will scan all of San Fransisco for you and say: ‘These are the three people you really outta meet.’ That’s the power of AI if harnessed the right way.

This concept, however, has already been alluded to in popular media. As Futurism points out:


It’s a controversial and arguably nightmarish vision of what the world of online dating could soon look like in the age of generative AI — as if it wasn’t bad enough out there already.

The concept was explored almost seven years ago in an episode of Netflix’s brooding anthology series “Black Mirror” titled “Hang the DJ,” in which two individuals are set up by an algorithm called “The System” and determined to be “the perfect match.” They’re obligated to enter a life-long partnership, whether they like it or not — until their predetermined “expiry date.”

But — spoiler alert — the pair are later revealed to be AI versions of actual people dreamed up by a machine, taking part in one out of 1,000 simulations designed to figure out whether their real-life counterparts are actually compatible.

Of course, the technology portrayed in the episode is entirely hypothetical. But with the advent of AI technologies like AI chatbots, tech executives like Wolfe Herd argue we could one day be matched up by an algorithm not unlike how “The System” works.


Last year Herd said at another tech forum that AI would be used to “supercharge” relationships on the app. She said at the time: “I would really think about AI as a supercharger to love and relationships. I want to be very clear, we are not intending on replacing humans with bots. We are not intending for people to fall in love in the sci-fi version of a digital boyfriend, girlfriend, [or] partner.”

Bumble recently came under scrutiny after they launched a new ad and billboard campaign that left a lot of people upset. The campaign told women that “a vow of celibacy is not the answer,” in an attempt to push more sensual relationships.

The controversial ad campaign

Bumble was forced to apologize after a backlash formed.

We made a mistake. Our ads referencing celibacy were an attempt to lean into a community frustrated by modern dating, and instead of bringing joy and humor, we unintentionally did the opposite.

The company said.

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Wait, so one minute she tells us “we are not intending on replacing humans with bots,” and now she says our “AI dating concierge could go and date for you with another dating concierge.” Well, that didn’t take long now did it?

This is just dark and disgusting. People are lonelier than they’ve ever been, so the answer at Bumble is just to isolate people and make them more socially awkward more than before? A big reason why so many people are lonely these days and cannot settle down is because they are so reliant on these dating apps, and not actually interacting in person. You can’t truncate a person into this tiny bio like a Sims character. But that’s what these dating apps do, and people just swipe who they might be interested in just by a few pictures and a few blurbs to describe their interests.

Proverbs 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Please don’t involve yourself in this garbage.


[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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3 Comments

  • By definition, Bumble means: move or act in an awkward or confused manner; speak in a confused or indistinct way.

    How appropriate.

    Sorry (not sorry), but if someone has to depend on an app (of any kind) to function, they need more help than they know. Just sayin’ . . .

  • Hahahahaha … How warped! First they frown upon arranged marriages and now trying to get them back to it through the magic of tell-a-vision black screen.

  • Look; what a high intellect does to ya, turns into a drooling idiot that spues bibbel-babel and turns them into useless morons LOLOL
    Daaaaaaaa, my bot will date in the meta verse and find you a date, oh this is such fun, pick me, pick me…….
    Nuten more then electronic “duck duck, goose” and after 37 tries, ya gets a dofuss.

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