WooPlus, a dating app for plus-size daters, added a ChatGPT help button people can use when they need assistance responding to messages from potential matches.

OkCupid said it got ChatGPT to write some questions to ask daters, like what they most value in a partner or how they like to spend the weekend. 'We are always reviewing the latest technology in consideration of what might make sense to add to our product,' a spokesperson said via email. I reached out to Bumble and OkCupid to see how aware apps like them are of this particular use of AI.īumble said it's keeping an eye on the development of AI, broadly, and how it could affect both its community and business. If this sounds like handwringing, well, we all have our hobbies. ' taking a lot of the legwork out of creating the lie,' Samson said.

It supplied me with a fictional expert knowledge of Asian street foods, a penchant for crying in the car to Everybody Hurts by R.E.M., and a story about getting lost in Tuscany and ending up on a goat farm. With ChatGPT, I didn't have to use any of my own brainpower to invent false details about myself. Once upon a time, fibbing about yourself would take some creativity. I never should've asked ChatGPT to write my dating profile. You never finished reading Infinite Jest. And even if some hopeful dater with a ChatGPT account isn't trying to get you to pay for his pet iguana's surgery, misrepresentation is an age-old problem in the dating world. The Federal Trade Commission reported that people lost $547 million to romance-based scams in 2021. 'I think that there are ways to use it, especially for dating apps and writing things about yourself that are honest and make sense,' Samson said, ' as it keeps progressing, and growing and getting smarter, people could start to abuse it, and that's what I think is so scary about it.'ĭating apps already struggle with problems like filters, bots and catfishing. Could it be OK to use material from ChatGPT as long as it's accurate and you just need some help packaging what you want to say about yourself? Do other daters need to know you used ChatGPT? (I'd sure want to know.) What happens if you start talking about cha-cha sliding with zombies on your profile but can't muster that level of quirk in real life? 'Oh no,' she said, when I read the 'meow there' response to her over the phone, 'ChatGPT is like the cringiest guy you've ever dated.' Cardio in a crisis? Is that from something? Does ChatGPT understand the underlying absurdity? Prompt: Write a funny one-sentence response to the dating app prompt: 'My zombie apocalypse plan is.'Īnswer: 'My zombie apocalypse plan is to teach the zombies the cha-cha slide, because you can never have too much cardio in a crisis.' An exclamation point? In a bio?! I would never. Let's swap book and album recommendations while sipping coffee and discussing our favorite genres. Seeking someone who shares my passions and is ready to join me on spontaneous adventures, cozy nights in, and trips to the local nursery. I spend my free time singing along to my favorite tunes, diving into the latest bestseller, and tending to my ever-growing collection of houseplants. Prompt: 'Write a 500-character dating app bio for a woman who likes music, books and houseplants.'Īnswer: 'Music lover, bookworm, and proud plant parent. I set to work crafting prompts, starting simple, then goading ChatGPT toward increasing chaos. Could I create the world's most effective dating profile via the power of machine learning? When I first read a PR pitch mentioning ChatGPT could be used to write bios and answer prompts on dating apps, I casually quipped into the void, 'But of course.' Then I started wondering what kind of dater AI could be. ChatGPT can write songs, but does that mean creativity no longer lives in the penthouse of a building the robots don't have the keycard to? Art created by artificial intelligence is so cool - except maybe it rips off human artists. In the last few months, humanity has been discovering the capabilities of AI tools with a fast-churning mix of horror and fascination. Here's a random fact about me: When I tested how ChatGPT might handle rewriting my dating app profile, the experimental AI chatbot tried to turn me into a cringey manic pixie dream girl who forgets to water her 'jungle' of houseplants, dances to her favorite 'tunes' and is looking for 'a fellow weirdo' to go on *shudders* 'adventures' with.

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