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And then you hook it up to hundreds of dating apps and it just does the boring job of making introductory chat presenting you at the end with only the women who are interested in a real date.


My friend was doing this with mIRC scripts on our city's DALnet room in 2001. His bot hit up random users, asked a/s/l, and if they were female would text to speech "BabyGurl18 is female".

So we'd be watching a movie, he'd have his computer speakers turned up in his room, his bot would announce and he'd get up and leave, already in conversation


The problem of this strategy is that your dates may realise that you are not talking as well as a good dating LLM once they meet you.


> your dates

> meet you

Everything you said is a net positive for very many people


Disappointing many people in person isn’t very positive from my point of view.


It was bound to happen to anyway, at least we can make it more efficient


And then someone uses it to create lots of fake people to populate the app so real people buy more subscriptions.


When you consider what will happen when everyone on dating apps is an LLM, you see the issue: in the end, everyone is "interested" in everyone who swiped right.




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