Generative AI and Love:
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Sara Ashley O’Brien asks “Can You Flirt Better Than Artificial Intelligence?”
Twenty-nine-year-old software engineer Anthony Riera set up an AI model to converse with his Tinder matches. It talked with about thirty-five of his matches on Tinder. “Sometimes, the AI was pretty dumb. Half the time it was completely lost. But sometimes, it works really, really well,” Riera wrote. One conversation led to a woman asking him out, but he declined. Mr. Riera shared snippets of his chats online as part of an experiment in a video.
A new host of applications is being developed in this space. Many of these applications focus on generating opening lines, something many people have particular trouble with on these applications. For example, Dmitri Mirakyan and Jeffrey Li built an AI-generated flirting support tool called YourMove AI. It provides people with “flirty,” “funny” and “formal” messages or responses based on a person’s profile and screenshots provided by a user. The concern, of course, is that using AI in this context might come across as cheesy, formulaic or even a form of catfishing, since it’s not you talking to the potential match, but rather an AI system.