
Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’
Nilay Patel
created: June 23, 2025, 2 p.m. | updated: June 23, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
There’s AI coaching features to help you improve your profile, pick better photos, and even catch an inappropriate message before it gets sent.
We’re actually finding, for example, the extent to which coaching has become really, really important right now.
Especially on things that we don’t really want to compete on, such as safety or monetization or things like that.
So first of all, I’ll just say that we don’t really think too much about Tinder as Hinge’s competition.
I think AI chatbots could frankly be much more dangerous in that respect.
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