Swiping Right On A Robot: Is AI Ruining Dating Apps?
Dating apps have never been the pinnacle of truth and accuracy. Selfies are heavily edited, job titles are exaggerated, and somehow every guy seems to say he loves hiking, “The Office,” and is over 6 feet tall.
While part of the demand for exaggeration stems from an increasingly picky female audience, the dating app arms race is getting spookily technologically advanced. Now, advances in artificial intelligence are making it harder than ever to even know if you’re talking to a real person. AI has been quickly gaining traction and attention recently, from viral face edits to auto-generated art, and most recently, updated language models mean AI is learning to speak surprisingly convincingly. ChatGPT, one of the newest and most advanced language models, is so sophisticated it can write passing essays for AP students, and it’s gaining users in its first few weeks faster than even Instagram and Spotify did.