AI dating apps promise less ghosting, more matches
Online dating can be rife with human problems, from ghosting and harassment to chats that don't lead to dates. Artificial intelligence can solve those issues — at least, a number of new startups say it can.
Marketed as AI-powered, a fresh crop of dating apps try to make it easier to find the right match by letting a bot assume the job of small talk, or pick out someone attractive enough. One app just lets people “date” the AI. The tech is a little wackier than the current swipe-left-or-right apps, such as Hinge, Tinder and Bumble, which have used algorithms for years to serve up results to users.
The new apps are vying for a share of the dating app market, estimated at $4.94 billion globally, according to Business of Apps. Bloomberg reporters tested some of the new AI-powered dating platforms to see what's different and how they perform.
The hardest part of dating, according to Daniel Liss, is the small talk. A digital entrepreneur whose previous ventures include the photo sharing site Dispo, Liss launched Teaser AI in June, marketing it as the app that leads to “less ghosting, more matches.”
On Teaser AI, nobody will be ignored — they'll get, at the very least, a bot responding to them.
The app's users train the bot to sound like they do, by chatting for a bit to share their common speech patterns. The bots then engage with potential suitors or their bots, as a “teaser.” If all goes well, the teaser bot loops in the human creator, who can then decide whether to set up a human-to-human date.
By getting over the small talk part, Liss says users can get to deeper conversations faster.
It sounds efficient, but a test of Teaser's chatbot shows that the AI takes an unwelcome creative license with basic facts. Our reporter trained
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