待翻譯：George Orwell's 1984 (Hinge Dating App)

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If you want to know what the ninth circle of Hell is like, join a dating site. I didn’t want to join a dating site, for I am happily ensconced, but I joined one in the interests of research because something very dark is going on in the world of dating apps, and it has something to do with two bugbears of mine: safeguarding and AI. If you could mate two monsters of modern life to produce a deranged creature capable of devouring human rights, then those two monsters would be safeguarding and AI. Recently, I began to notice a deluge of complaints on online forums from people protesting their innocence after being banned from dating apps for no apparent reason. Reddit is awash with these demented souls, some of whom are so appalled at being summarily accused of unknown offences of a predatory nature that they are presenting as nigh-on suicidal. Girding my loins, and all that, I decided to join the app users were claiming was the worst offender, Hinge, the largest dating app in America, with 30 million users worldwide. It is owned by Match, which also owns Tinder. Match Group proudly states that in the interests of safety, 80 per cent of harmful accounts are now removed using AI before a real user ever reports them. Now, you have to realise that in joining Hinge, I obviously set out to behave as mildly as I could. I wanted to perform an experiment, so I resolved to start out as innocently as possible, before feeling my way to flirting and maybe seeing what passes for offensive, which I assumed wouldn’t be much. I made my profile polite and correct, uploaded professional head shots and did exactly as the app directed by ticking the ‘like’ icon on certain profiles to show the sort of person I was looking for. I made one comment on one user’s profile, which was the mildest little flirt I could think of. ‘Nice tux!’ I tried to write on a picture of a chap dressed smartly at a wedding. But the system instantly flashed up a warning that the comment was inappropriate. So I deleted it and didn’t post it. I didn’t contact or message another user. I simply viewed profiles for 15 minutes, and that was that. The next morning, I was amazed to receive an obnoxious email from Hinge entitled ‘Your account has been removed’: ‘Hi Melissa, Your account was banned for breaking one or more of our policies. You can log in to Hinge to learn more about why your account was banned and how to appeal, if that information is available to you.’