Dr. Raffaele Ciriello

With AI, it's a bit different because you do have to engage somehow.

You do have to kind of give it some information and talk to it.

And with AI companionship, when people are

forming relationships with their chat GPT or like their character AIs and so on.

That is more like the dopamine kick comes from feeling understood, right?

So it's like, oh, there's this digital being there that listens to me and that figures out what I want and then mirrors that aspect of my personality back to me.

And that can be exhilarating as well.

I think in the context of a dating app, it's probably gonna be more like that.

But in a sense, it's a little bit like with that wingman dynamic, right?

So you have your digital wingman or wingwoman,

a win being, and then that goes out and finds you potential matches.

And that could be like multiple dopamine hits at once, right?

Because I imagine it like, okay, the app comes back to you and then gives you a list of people or introduces you maybe one after the other to potential matches.

And then you just go ahead and you try to maximize for that, right?

So like, I don't know, maybe it's a little bit of a male bias here, but I imagine that some people could go in there and say, hey,

you know, give me a dozen dates right at once.

Right.

And so that that is probably a dynamic that could be playing out in there.

So it's a bit speculative.

I can't exactly say how it's going to happen, but that's how I imagine it.