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Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/09/grindr-trials-premium-500-per-month-plan-to-become-ai-first-app/
16•mraniki•1h ago

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Deukhoofd•1h ago
Apps that are focused on human connection sound to me like they're the absolute worst target for going 'AI-first'
maininformer•1h ago
Grindr would be exempt by that token then
e1ghtSpace•1h ago
"Powered by gAI™"

I wonder if it would be worth creating an app that just sends you on dates using AI. Like, you don't even get to look at the other person's profile. Then afterwards you would report to the app whether you would go on another date with the person you just went out with or not.

suzzer99•57m ago
Or just have your AI and their AI go on a date and report back how it went.
hleszek•51m ago
Isn't that a Black Mirror episode?
piva00•44m ago
It's also the premise of the show Soulmates.

Another instance of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" from the too tech-minded people.

rich_sasha•14m ago
To be honest, sadly, I think you're onto something.

I can imagine the AI agents chatting to each other, figuring out what you like. I can see the chain of thought going "I can't say XYZ is lazy and rough, instead I'll say he saves his energy for what really matters, and lives to the full".

So many apps are just image attractiveness scoring plus some superficial conversation with pleasantries, which are both things AI do well at.

ghtaylor•1h ago
Think what you want, but trademarking "gAI" is quite the flex
manugo4•57m ago
Google invented it first. g.ai
RupertSalt•52m ago
How do you pronounce that?

I suppose, either way, they win!

nusl•15m ago
Gay-i perhaps
mbix77•1h ago
Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app? It's such a basic need it seems for people, but the current app landscape is filled with scams, dark patterns, selling your data, trying to keep you locked in,...
embedding-shape•1h ago
Haven't seen any "zero trust" dating apps but there are plenty of free ones (some operating with a "donations" model, like duolicious). How do you envision a zero trust dating app to work in practice?
woooooo•1h ago
I'm guessing it gets overrun by spam, scams and porn bots even faster if its a low budget community thing.
rwmj•1h ago
Not to mention the gigantic legal iceberg the first time someone is attacked or worse after meeting through the app.
Almondsetat•1h ago
If I'm going out with someone the last thing I'd want is zero trust. In fact, I'd want the platform to thoroughly confirm everyone's identity
OJFord•54m ago
I'm not sure if I don't understand your comment, or you're misunderstanding 'zero trust':

> implemented by establishing identity verification, validating device compliance prior to granting access, and ensuring least privilege access to only explicitly-authorized resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_architecture

Almondsetat•24m ago
I was thinking about zero trust in the context of simply confirming if a user is 18+, where the identity provider only returns a true or false withour exposing more info. For a dating app you'd want the identity provider to confirm a whole lot more, which might not even be present in the ID
ben_w•58m ago
> Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app?

What would that even mean?

Not the open source part, what is a "zero trust dating app"?

Given what we see in other primates, abusive spouses almost certainly predate anatomically modern humans, while gold diggers will have likely existed from the moment we abstracted money in the sense of "rare shiny rock that is a token of power to be spent in the future".

stevekemp•14m ago
Back in the day I used livejournal and for a couple of years in a row I setup a matchmaking site that paired users up.

You'd login to my site and see a list of all the blogs you followed, then you could nominate five of them as people you were interested in.

If they did the same, you'd both get a notification.

It was a cute system and because it was restricted to selecting only from people you already followed it was nice and local. The code was released at the time, but has now become lost in the winds.

I could almost imagine setting it up again for instagram, facebook, or similar, but .. getting users would be hard I imagine, and I'm sure the companies would try to sue or prohibit it.

christkv•1h ago
lol wut. What exactly is the AI doing for 500 USD a month?

New AI features include recaps of previous conversations with other users, daily personalised profile recommendations and profile insights to help users identify who they are more likely to be compatible with.

so basically bullshit?

how thirsty do you have to be do pay for this?

bondarchuk•1h ago
Sortition, you get to date with other people who also have 500 bucks to spare. Any features you get are just window dressing.
Iulioh•35m ago
But would you date someone who WOULD spend 500 bucks on a dating app?

IIRC Tinder premium was cheaper the more attractive you are, because if you attract more people you are less likely to buy it.

bambax•1h ago
> app that helps you connect with less effort and makes every conversation count

What makes things count is most often precisely the effort spent on them.

ra•59m ago
I guess you're not the target market
gib444•57m ago
Grindr is trash. It's mostly full of desperate incompatible people (i.e. same sexual position, mostly passives), open couples who just want dopamine hits and other time-wasters. Good luck with offering a $500 sub!

You'd actually be better off spending $500/mo on an escort or two. Surely they've realised at that price point, that's a serious competitor

kotaKat•18m ago
Five hundred bucks gets you into a lot of bathhouses a month.
seydor•52m ago
It's like paying streetwalkers, but Grindr is their pimp. One could make the argument that they re taking advantage pf them
embedding-shape•22m ago
Is this argument specific to Grindr or you just dislike any dating app?

FWIW I'd personally think most dating apps are taking advantage of people one way or another.

ladidahh•29m ago
This has to be the most effective ad campaign they have done, I have seen some variation of this story on every platform I use. I don't think the brand has a lot of goodwill, but my awareness has gone through the roof due to this AI push
dqv•18m ago
Ok y'all wrap it up, it's a bubble.

I can definitely see portions of the userbase paying $500/month to use AI to screen out "fats and fems" tho

thomond•12m ago
Why would they even need an genAI? Grindr isn't even a dating site, it's a hookup site. A few if statements would do it.
hsbauauvhabzb•7m ago
Grindr is well past enshittified. I do wish them luck selling ai to all 5 of their users though.

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