Dating App Fake Profiles

Siqi Chen reveals that many dating apps operate with fake profiles and deceptive practices, with companies employing people to impersonate attractive users to engage real customers and drive sales.

• Most dating apps use fake profiles as a standard business practice

  • "That's true of the majority of dating apps"
  • "That's just like standard operating procedure like Plenty of Fish... Seeking Arrangement... that is their business model"

• How these fake profiles operate:

  • Often run by people overseas (like "guys in the Philippines")
  • Men frequently impersonate women to chat with male users
  • Similar practices exist in webcam and OnlyFans industries

• Advanced AI technology in adult industries:

  • "Up until OpenAI, the companies with the most advanced AI technology is going to be one of these companies"
  • "They are better at creating chatbots than anyone"
  • "They've just developed better chatbot technology than anyone"

• OnlyFans operation details:

  • Popular influencers employ "an army of a hundred people who are like pipers or chatters"
  • These chatters aren't just flirting but are "basically salesmen"
  • They "try to upsell you" to "buy this video, buy this photo... buy the subscription"
  • They must "come across like they're the original person"

• The surprising work environment:

  • Despite the nature of the work, the office environment is "just normal"
  • "The most boring cubicle normal office environment that you've ever seen"

• Dating app manipulation tactics:

  • Match.com would show active users many inactive profiles
  • This forces users to send messages to people who won't respond
  • When inactive users get notifications, they reactivate their paid subscriptions
  • "In the first hundred matches that they would show you... 50-60-70% of those matches were all just inactive people"