Well, here we are:
A bizarre new AI-powered dating service is sweeping across California college campuses by replacing endless swiping with computer-generated matchmaking that promises to find students more compatible dates.
Ditto, a startup founded in 2024 by former UC Berkeley students, is expanding rapidly after ditching the Tinder-style model in favor of an AI-driven system that pairs users based on their interests.
“For the past 20 years, we’ve connected in primitive ways,” Ditto says on its website. “But now … AI brings your ‘profiles’ to life as agents.”
Silly me, I thought that was the way Tinder paired people off, but I’ve been told that in fact it was other dating (“looking for a shag / partner”) websites (e.g. match.com, OKCupid, etc. ) which did that.
On a tangential note, I constantly thank goodness that I’m not part of the dating pool — never was, unless we’re talking about my teens and twenties, which are so far in the past that genealogists shudder.
Here’s a thought: in Comments, imagine what my profile would read like in Ditto. Be as graphic or insulting as you wish.
My thinking here is that you are a Bass player – nuf said, lol.
Expounding on that, who gets the most, er, attention in a band? From the outside, my guess is most reliably it’s the drummer at all levels or fame and fortune.. followed by almost any other member with the bass player at the other end of the spectrum. OTOH, the one other bass player I know from high school got married (once) had a gazillion kids and a gazillion grand kids. YMMV..
Everything old is new again. Back in the 70s my dorm had a thing where you put answered a questionnaire, they punched onto a card and ran them through the computer (an IBM 360 Mainframe that took up the basement of the computer science building) and it matched you for a date at an event they held at a local bar.
Or they just drew names at random out of a hat and told us it was the computer. I dunno.
Don’t remember the name or much else about the girl I “matched” with. The main reason I remember this event is that the poster advertising it was a life sized print out of a recent Playboy Playmate in ASCII text, with enough areas not filled in to make it suitable for a 1978 dorm lobby. (would never fly today of course)
Grumpy, opinionated old fart? Probably not the best lead in. I really dont know if there are dating sites for gents in their 70’s but hope that women of the appropriate age would appreciate your bluntness. I tried a number of different dating sites in the mid and late 00’s at the encouragement of my daughter and most were extremely dissatisfying. The level of phoniness was discouraging. There was a site out of England that you might have appreciated for its style if not the fact that it was a “Christian” site. The thing that would have made you look like a rock star was a series of essay questions, you would shine.. Since it was a Christian site some of the questions addressed your spiritual growth and beliefs and your philosophy of life. It was a good venue to get some idea of what folks were really about and forced you to think about your own values.
When I worked in the hospital with a bunch of 20something nurses, I was about 40 at the time, they gabbed about the dating scene, boyfriends etc. I did my best to ignore them and did my best to avoid answering them when they asked for my opinion. I am very glad I was not in their dating pool. The same occurred when people closer to my age talk about their dating experiences after their divorce. I worked in a male dominated industry and a female dominated industry and a female dominated industry. I have to honestly say that the women were far more crude and disgusting than the men.