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Bots are usually the last thing you want to encounter on a dating app while swiping through endless photos of people standing atop mountains, but Tinder is preparing to harness the power of AI for the good of your profile.

The app, which already uses artificial intelligence in its matching algorithms, has started testing new customer-facing tools. One sifts through your photos and selects the best five to display (hopefully with the good sense to avoid the ambiguous group shot), addressing a pain point where many users get flustered when building their profile.

Its just the beginning of the AI dating revolution. Tinders parent company, Match Group, which also owns Hinge and OKCupid, revealed plans in its recent earnings announcement to integrate new AI features across its brandsnot just to help build profiles but also to highlight why someone may be a good match.

And the company cant control whether daters bring AI into the mix themselves: A recent UK study found that over 50% of single men would use chatbots to help chat up potential dates.

Lo-fi alternatives: As dating apps go increasingly high-tech, some singles are turning to more staid Google Docs and creating long-form date-me docs to find romance outside the app grind.AR

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AI is getting into the dating game - Morning Brew