Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says
About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters. Dating app giant Match Group - which owns apps like Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid - conducted a study to determine how U. singles really feel about the relationship between AI and dating.
Key Takeaways
- Turns out, people don't want AI messing with every aspect of human life.
- This perspective varies depending on what the AI is being used for.
About 40% of singles say they would refuse to date someone who uses an AI companion app, and that figure rises to 51% among women ages 18 to 24.
- This survey refers to the new crop of AI features that basically every app is introducing, which help users punch up their profiles, choose photos, and keep conversations flowing.
- It's pretty normal nowadays to say you met your partner online, but "his bot asked my bot out, and our bots hit it off" will never be a socially acceptable meet-cute.
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Stats & Key Facts
- #About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.
- #About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.
- #But according to Match's survey of 1,000 people aged 18 to 39, 47% of singles have a negative view of AI's use in romantic contexts.
- #About 40% of singles say they would refuse to date someone who uses an AI companion app, and that figure rises to 51% among women ages 18 to 24.
Turns out, people don't want AI messing with every aspect of human life. Across the industry, dating apps are experimenting with AI. Bumble introduced a dating assistant named Bee , and Tinder is spending so much on AI tools that it's slowed its hiring process.
Meanwhile, Hinge's CEO stepped down last year to launch a more AI-focused dating app altogether. But according to Match's survey of 1,000 people aged 18 to 39, 47% of singles have a negative view of AI's use in romantic contexts. This perspective varies depending on what the AI is being used for.
About 40% of singles say they would refuse to date someone who uses an AI companion app, and that figure rises to 51% among women ages 18 to 24. However, only 12% of 18- to 24-year-olds said that they had used a companion app over the last three months, and only about a third of those users said they were seeking genuine connections with those chatbots. While Match says that people harbor a "near-universal" disapproval of actually dating an AI, like in the movie "Her," that doesn't mean that respondents are wholly opposed to AI features within apps.
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