AI found him a date. ChatGPT told him to propose. Now they're getting married.

Aeksandr Zhadan knew he didn’t want to match on Tinder with any women holding flowers in their profile pictures. In Russia, where he lives, he thought it was a telltale sign of a big ego—akin to the men-holding-fish-photos that have plagued dating apps in the United States.

He also knew he didn’t want to continue conversations with women who were very religious, into astrology, or did not work.

So he built some AI-powered bots to weed them out.

“Previously I’d had a good relationship for two years, and I realized that I understand what I want, I understand what I don't want, and I understand how we can connect,” Zhadan, a 23-year-old AI product manager who goes by Sasha, told Forbes from Moscow. “I wanted to find the one.” To cut out some of the time and emotional strain of going on hundreds of dates and sifting through thousands of profiles on Tinder, he built an auto-swiper in 2022 to do some of the work. And when ChatGPT was unveiled shortly after, he started programming it to chat with his matches. Transcripts, screenshots and data reviewed by Forbes show the evolution of Sasha’s AI as he improved it over several months.

Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2024/02/14/dating-apps-ai-chatgpt-tinder-hinge-bumble-match/?sh=3f536cd84ddc

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