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In Praise of AI-Generated Pickup Lines
We're at the height of a global technological revolution, and yet this is the modern state of dating: You swipe left, swipe left again, and again, and again--in fact, you mind-numbingly swipe left so many times that when the app finally lands on a person you deem worthy of swiping right, you accidentally swipe left on them, too. My thumbs are bloody with disappointment that dating apps, once the face of innovation, have become relics of the status quo. But I've seen the light on the horizon in the form of generative AI programs like ChatGPT. These have now been crowned the virtual assistant of the future--so why shouldn't we use it for dating, which most people already describe as a second job? AI can put the fun back into dating--but we can't expect the end result to change if we don't let go of our preconceived notions of what meeting and talking to partners should look like. I was inspired by a viral TikTok of a self-described "Tinder veteran" who used ChatGPT to write pickup lines for his matches.