--- title: "Tinder Deploys AI-Powered Singles That Automatically Shoot Down Your Rizzless Attempts at Flirtation" description: "Tinder has teamed up with OpenAI to bring an AI flirting game to the dating app — and it's somehow way more cringe than you could imagine." date: "2025-04-02" modified: "2025-04-02" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/tinder-ai-flirting-game" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "ai girlfriend" - "dating apps" - "OpenAI" - "tinder" --- # Tinder Deploys AI-Powered Singles That Automatically Shoot Down Your Rizzless Attempts at Flirtation ![Tinder has teamed up with OpenAI to bring an AI flirting game to the dating app — and it's somehow way more cringe than you could imagine.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Tinder has teamed up with OpenAI to bring an AI voice-activated flirting game to the dating app. As the company [revealed in a press release](), the awkwardly-named "Game Game" uses OpenAI's voice mode and GPT-4o reasoning model to encourage users to roleplay various meet-cute scenarios and get points based on how good they are at flirting. (Tinder assured in that same press release that the voice data gleaned from the game wouldn't be used to train any new AI models.) In an [Instagram video](), Spencer Rascoff, the Zillow cofounder who was [recently appointed CEO]() of the Tinder-owning Match Group, demonstrated how the goofy game works. (The [49-year-old]() executive may have also revealed his own preferences in the video: the AI single he matched with, Mila, was listed as age 32.) Upon "matching" with "Mila" — who, like the other AI Game Game participants, has a cartoonish avatar and an audibly robotic voice — Rascoff begins one of the most uncomfortable conversational exchanges we've ever had the displeasure of witnessing. At one point during the contrived scenario meant to take place in a kitchen at a party, the [Palantir alum]() tells the AI avatar that he's having a "great time at this cooking activity," and soon after informs her she's "spicy." It also doesn't help that the video itself keeps losing focus on Rascoff's phone screen and misspelling the name "Mila" in its captions. In an [interview with *Fast Company*](), Tinder growth and product VP Hillary Paine seemed to suggest that the game's goofiness was intentional — and cited metrics from a [2023 company survey]() as evidence. "Our Future of Dating report found that 64 percent of young singles are totally fine with a little cringe if it leads to a real connection," Paine detailed. "We didn’t want it to feel overly polished or intense. Instead, we leaned into humor, awkwardness, and low-pressure moments to help users practice flirting in a fun, playful, and judgment-free way." After trying the Game Game out for ourselves, *Futurism* can definitely agree that it's not "overly polished," though perhaps not in the way Tinder's C-suite intended. When this reporter opened the in-app game, they forgot, as many are wont to do, to turn off their Bluetooth speaker. As such, the AI single they matched with began talking in stereo — and then, seemingly, responding to its own audio as if it were a real person speaking back. We've reached out to Tinder to ask about that seeming glitch, but it's still a pretty hilarious exploit for a game — and company — that's [clearly attempting to garner engagement]() via a clunky and malfunctioning technology. **More on AI love:** [*Woman Alarmed When Date Uses ChatGPT to Psychologically Profile Her*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()