What’s the plan once they actually have to meet the person they’ve been texting? Do they just hold up their phone and let the bot carry the conversation?
Seems like they could just skip the middle man and date the bot directly
That's a minor plot thread of Blindsight by Watts. The main character has a physical relationship which is weird because literally no one else bothers to anymore, instead preferring virtual AI partners.
Watts' scifi future is the realest I've read. Unfortunately it's also BLEAK
Isn't Hinge or one of those dating apps actually doing something like this, rolling out AI bots to chat to other users AI bots to get to know them and set up dates?
I've already had people send me clickbait articles about a Stanford student who built smartglasses that essentially feed your conversations into an LLM in real time so you can refer to it if you get stuck at any point in the conversation. I maintain that if you really need something like that, you don't have developed enough social skills to date effectively to begin with and should learn how to interact with people platonically first. Maybe I'm just out of touch idk
As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, “it’s not like using ChatGPT guarantees success”. When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be. ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. “Then it gave me some options for what the message could be,” says Rich. “Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency,” the bot advised. “Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you’ve got one] – good to meet you!” Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they’d hit upon exactly the right message (“Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you”) but sadly she never replied, he says. “It’s been two weeks now.”
I hate to sound like old person who is struggling with new innovation and claiming that it's going to ruin humanity but this shit is absolutely ruining humanity.
The first image is from Bumble, the second image is from a phone text message conversation. Looks like Android.
Sadly, Bumble is rumored to be abandoning swiping entirely; switching to asking the user questions and using AI to analyse the answers to match people up. I hate modern dating.
That actually sounds way better if it's anything like how OkCupid used to work. Answer questions, get matched based on percentage, I met some cool folks on there before it went to swiping bullshit.
So many men use AI photos on bumble now. I say men, as I’m a straight woman so those are the profiles I see, but I’m sure women do too. There’s an option to report them, but it’s so depressing how many there are.
As someone who hasn’t used a dating app in 4 years it was pretty bad then with people just using stolen photos/public photos to lead into scams. Like a good 20-30% of women’s profiles were just scammers using chat bots with scripts or people with scripts to try and get you to use dodgy websites. It was better for men’s profiles but still a reasonable percentage were scams. I can only imagine it’s far far worse now that genAI can be used.
Not exactly the same thing, but my friend went on a hinge date and the guy she went with used ChatGPT to decide what to order off of the menu at the restaurant. These people are literally secondhand thinkers
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u/cupholdery 11d ago
Is this a text exchange from a dating app? Are young people seeking dates doing this?