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To fix this, a number of startups have launched niche social apps – some weird, some obvious – designed to meet specific needs, many of them built around the promise of AI. Volarcreated by a former product director at Snap, uses a chatbot to communicate with potential customers on your behalf. There is also Rizz, Irisand You liveall of which enable AI to find your best friend by helping users control what they see and engage in complex conversations. For singles who are interested in other, say, avant-garde forms of friendship, which completely remove people from the equation, there are programs like EVA YOU and Lunawho act as your AI companion.
It’s too early to say how much any AI-powered software will help reduce the chances of ghosting, but soon. report from Hopelab found that 40 percent of young people rely on chatbots for continuous communication. The future of dating, the report concluded, promises to be more social, and more exotic, than ever before.
However, right-swiping fatigue remains a major problem among singles of all kinds. In wild dating, app fatigue is contagious. No one knows better than JB strength in dating from New York I spoke to him in September. At the time, he had 200 girlfriends after the breakup – most of them from Hinge and Raya – and said he was getting very tired, although he couldn’t shake his happiness.
I heard from JB in December. He reached out to let me know that he somehow forgot to share the “untwisted” dating story from our first conversation. “I can’t believe I just thought about that recently,” he wrote via text message. “A girl we were on our third date with says, ‘If you sleep well with me tonight, I’ll stop dating this week.'”
Is he? I shot.
“I was angry. “I almost ended the day,” he said. “He won until he hit me with poison shit.”
JB told me that he is still tired of these programs but he has not stopped using them. The week we talk about, he is almost over. A recent engagement in Philadelphia, he said, was messed up when the woman lied about talking to other people. He did his first action on Raya and later set up a lot of marketing DMs on Instagram. He chased her away, which was unusual and a refreshing change. He said: “I was beaten. Which made it all the more difficult when the relationship ended. “They looked for me, just to lie about it?”
JB is currently in rehab, or what he describes to me as “question” time – being his neighbor’s cat, surfing TikTok, trying out new restaurants. “I’m very disappointed but we’ll be back,” he told me. She wonders if dating apps will have a solution for singles like her. It’s really cool outside.