Baudrillard would have a field day.

> Baudrillard believed that society had become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was becoming meaningless by being infinitely mutable; he called this phenomenon the "precession of simulacra". [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

My Tinder bot finally virtually hooked up with my match’s bot. Reading the chat logs made me feel really lonely though. Why is it so hard to meet people? /s

I suppose when they meet up they can complete Zizek's idea of sticking their sex toys together and having a cup of tea. They could basically outsource the entire relationship - just have two instances of GPT texting each other and go about their lives.

It's been interesting to see someone I've all but begged to consider talk therapy jump gladly into using chatgpt as a life coach and therapist

I've been using deep fakes to lure men into my ginger bread house and chatgpt to write all my comments.

I don’t see a problem with this. It can be soul crushing to put tons of effort into an ice breaker only to receive no response. If this can get their attention you will still have to carry on the rest of the conversation, and eventually act normally offline as well.

And what does one do when you meet in person and no longer have the witty AI to carry your conversation?

Honestly the formulaic simplicity of gaining matches on Tinder gave me a bit of depression once I had it figured out while I was still on the apps. For anyone else with success on dating apps you'll know what I'm talking about.

I've been in a long term relationship for a while now (thank god) but one of the first things I thought of when ChatGPT came out was using it to do just this with Tinder matches. Anyone who does while the other person on Tinder doesn't suspect anything is going to have a major leg-up on their competition.

One step towards the “Hang the DJ” Black Mirror episode where a dating app recommends matches by simulating relationships.

If you had ChatGPT on both sides with deep info about each person they could talk to see if there is chemistry :)

The whole dating app game makes me shudder.

The goal is to get someone's Snapchat?

Why on earth would either of us want that? We're talking over tinder why should we start in Snapchat!?

What next tiktok?!

Full disclosure I've never used these apps having been in a relationship since before they started. I'm totally screwed if we breakup...

Surely the fact that we don't meet people in our lives without apps is a social catastrophe?

No surprise here, people have been doing this for a long time, and tinder and others used bots to engage with people early on.

The more serious concern seems to be private dating conversations being made public on TikTok!

I wish I got married in my 20s. Everything is so messed up now.

This feels huge for some reason.