How do you tell if youre talking to a bot on Tinder?

If you notice that all the images and interests are too common and the profile lacks a personal touch, it might not be authentic; The bio looks fishy. If the bio includes lots of grammar mistakes, invitations to suspicious links, or personals details that do not make sense, you might have encountered a bot.

How do algorithms on dating apps work?

The big dating apps have proprietary matching algorithms that theyre famously cagey about, but most rely on a combination of stated preferences – what you tell the app you want in a partner, either explicitly in your settings or implicitly through engagement – and something called collaborative filtering.