🎬Flirty AI

April 03, 2025

Good morning. Yesterday, CEO Sam Altman said that ChatGPT gained 1m users in an hour and that the “biblical demand” has left OpenAI struggling to keep up with new sign-ups. What’s behind the surge? OpenAI made its image generator free to all users. That’s already been a wild ride, with some people using it to generate images in the style of Studio Ghibli, sparking copyright concerns, and others generating fake receipts. If the latter has you tempted to fake some receipts;

  • Please don’t, and

  • know that its images contain metadata that will indicate if ChatGPT whipped them up.

— Edna Akanni.


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Tinder wants to use AI to up your flirt game

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Time to put in your 10,000 hours to become an expert flirter. On Tuesday, the dating app Tinder released “The Game Game,” a…game that allows users to practice their pickup skills with an OpenAI chatbot.

How it works: Users receive a virtual deck of cards with unique scenarios and personas to flirt with via the speech-to-speech tech. The goal is to charm the bot with voice memos and score a date before time runs out:

  • The game provides you with feedback, flagging any potential missteps and reminding you to ask questions. Apparently, it is also kinda hard.

  • Tinder said it launched the game on April Fools’ Day on purpose, poking fun at some of the rom-com scenarios in the game.

Big picture: Tinder said it doesn’t want users to lose sight of the real purpose of its app (to meet human beings in real life). But with fewer new users looking for love on their phones, dating apps have started to pour money into AI features to win over Gen Z, like virtual wingmen and photo selectors. Some experts worry these automated helpers can make it even more difficult to form genuine human connections. -EA.

The three comma club got bigger

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A new batch of billionaires just joined Forbes’s 2025 list. The 288 new additions — up from 265 in 2024 — are worth $2.4B on average and collectively bring nearly $680B in wealth to their new, exclusive club of 3k+ billionaires. Some names you’d know, like Aliko Dangote, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jerry Seinfeld, while others you might not — Marilyn Simons, the widow of hedge fund mogul Jim Simons, is worth $31B. Before you start trash-talking the new additions, check out this stat: Almost 70% of them are self-made. At this point, the wait for the introduction of the Saudi Royal family members into the club is getting too long.

“The best first wish to make when you find a genie is asking what the best other two wishes should be.”

Around the continent

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  • The World Bank yesterday approved a $1.08 billion loan for Nigeria.

  • Mediators from the African Union arrived in South Sudan yesterday to foster peace talks amidst an incumbent civil war.

  • The Congolese government and M23 rebels are expected to hold direct talks on April 9 in Qatar.

  • BYD, a Chinese automaker, has entered the Nigerian market.

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