Grindr is about to get even better… or worse… depending on how you look at it, and how you feel about artificial intelligence.After announcing recently that it was hoping to shift away from hookups and casual encounters by adding features “focused on long-term dating, travel, and professional networking,” the popular dating app says it’s also aiming to provide “AI wingmen” to users in the near future.Grindr –– you can’t live with it, you can’t hookup without it. Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Bloomberg first reported on the plans a few months ago, saying Grindr was partnering with Ex-human Inc., a provider of generative artificial intelligence tools, to create a tool that could “recommend a restaurant to take a date to or select music based on a person’s profile that they might find aphrodisiacal if and when they come up for a drink.”“If we don’t do it, someone else will,” Grindr CEO George Arison said back in December.
