#ai-dating

#ai-dating

"designed to be deleted."

Match Group, the dating giant that owns apps like Hinge, Tinder, and OkCupid, is backing Overtone with pre-seed financing and plans to take a "substantial ownership position," according to a press release. With Match's support, Overtone was incubated as a project inside of Hinge. McLeod and a dedicated team spent the year developing the idea of Overtone, which is described as "an early-stage dating service focused on using AI and voice tools to help people connect in a more thoughtful and personal way."

It's a well-worn adage of the Internet age: people often aren't what they seem to be online. But until recently, you could at least be assured that they were people. Now, though, chatfishing, a new wave of online deception, is taking over dating apps. Instead of catfishingusing an entirely fake identitypeople are using artificial intelligence to help them chat up prospective love interests and secure dates.