My Epic, Embarrassing, Shockingly Successful Ploy to Get My Friend a Date Using A.I.

"Would you like to go out again?" asked the former woodworker, who likes intense, rambling conversations. "Yes, but first I have to tell you something," said the woman seeking someone to laugh with in the face of life's mysteries. And then she explained that it was not her who'd originally set up her profile and arranged the date--it was ChatGPT. And some woman he'd never met. I am to blame--or to credit, if date No. 2 goes well--for this scenario, which occurred last month in a bar in New York. It was just one of quite a few exchanges that I facilitated, using some supposedly transformative A.I. tools, for a friend who (perhaps unwisely!) had given me the keys to her Tinder and Bumble accounts. Here are some examples of A.I.-generated openers I considered … If you were a vegetable, you'd be a cutecumber. I've been reading a book on anti-gravity lately. It's impossible to put down.