Dating Platforms

Spam, scams, mass interaction, scraping, synthetic personas, and safety-sensitive identity.

Canvas focus

• Actors: daters, platforms, scammers, marketers, scrapers, safety teams, payment and identity providers.
• Harms: financial fraud, harassment, privacy invasion, artificial engagement, emotional harm, and degraded matching markets.
• Policy tension: high-volume but sincere behavior, assistive writing, AI-generated profiles, travel, shared networks, and commercial solicitation.
• Observability: conversations and identity signals are sensitive; collection and review impose privacy and wellbeing costs.
• Recourse: explanations must protect reporters and detection methods while permitting meaningful contest.

Research questions

• Which behaviors predict harm rather than mere unusualness?
• How does intervention timing change victim exposure?
• What safety burden is transferred to users through challenges and reporting?
• How should synthetic media and AI assistance change disclosure policy?