Hi everyone!
We’re a team of graduate students researching a new AI-driven dating experience. We noticed that AI excels at finding needles in haystacks, so we want to apply that to finding love ❤️. Imagine your personal AI agent meets and connects with thousands or millions of other agents to find your perfect match, and even kicks off the conversation.
We’re looking for feedback to help shape our research and would love to hear your thoughts. If you have 60 seconds, we’d really appreciate it if you could fill out this short, anonymous Google Form survey: https://forms.gle/LSwg8eQPySyhuXb26
Thank you so much for your time and insights!
We're a team of graduate students researching a new kind of AI-powered dating experience and need your feedback!
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I think the issue with dating apps is not necessarily match accuracy but instead a lack of true expression. You’ll almost never see someone being genuine on a dating apps because then they won’t get matches.
If you’re able to legitimately increase match accuracy using better algorithms, I think the best way to convert this would be by setting up IRL blind dates instead of the standard profile review > texting model.
Because you’ll literally never beat the existing apps doing exactly what they’re doing but with a marginally better black-box formula (remember, the customer doesn’t see the genius of your process, only the results).
But if you can say “trust my formula, go on this date we promise you’ll at least have a good time” and people believe you, your product is suddenly groundbreaking. Meeting in person greatly improves connection and what you’re basically doing is saying “people are bad at filtering (which they are) so we’ll do it for them”.
Here’s your feedback: I am neither interested in having a machine find my match, nor speak to another person on my behalf, nor am I interested in having a conversation with a machine playing wingman for someone too scared to say hello for themselves. The entire premise on which you’ve built your system is an insult, and I’m afraid you’ve wasted an enormous amount of your time.