Later, Mila can be summoned to help you come up with ‘a bouquet of charming texts’ – think an enthusiastic, emoji-heavy ChatGPT – sans the time and effort usually required of the initial chatting stage. After downloading the app, you have a voice ‘conversation’ with an AI dating chatbot named Mila, designed to assess your personality and tailor your matches accordingly. One such app is Mila, the central tenet of which is ‘flirt better, date more’. Riding ChatGPT’s lucrative coattails, tech titans began developing dating apps with built-in chatbots. AI was already responsible for dating apps’ algorithms, but chatbots boasted the ability to craft articulate, personally tailored messages in seconds. When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, among those taking advantage of its time-saving potential were jaded online daters. But can we decry netizens’ lazy preamble, given the laborious nature of the app carousel? Enter the AI dating chatbot. Most openers are painfully prosaic, with, ‘How’s your week going?’ flooding into inboxes at an alarming rate. A witty and original introduction, I conceded – teasing but not mean.Īlas, on ‘the apps’, such originality is rare. ‘Ahh that’s where I left my loofah!’ replied a potential Hinge match to a photo of me in a pastel tulle dress.
