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From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

New generative AI tools like stable diffusion or chat GPT can create stunning headshots,

right flawless pros, even imitate someone's voice. Basically, a catfishers dream.

Online romance scams have become an increasing problem, especially on dating apps.

Tinder, one of the most popular dating apps in the US, has stepped up efforts to combat these

scams in recent years with features like a new video verification system to authenticate

users identities. Rory Kosel is Tinder's senior vice president of Product Integrity.

I asked him if he's seeing AI tools being misused on the app.

It is something that we're obviously working on and trying to look into how this is showing up

on the platform, but I don't think it's a new threat. This technology is showing up if it shows up

at all and it already does in one form or another as really just another way of people trying to catfish.

And to the extent that we have the tools and the ability to thwart that, we're going to continue

to deploy those same tools. And if we have to improve them to keep up with the bad guys,

we will do that. We're funded to do so.

Tinder has had something called photo verification for some time. It allows users to sort of prove

that they are who they say they are. Now you've added a new level video verification to that.

How does it work? Yeah, so the original photo verification feature was based on some static

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