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And so there were researchers there.

There were people who were representatives of startups, of dating startups there.

We're all talking about basically the uses and in some cases the limits of technology to improve human mating.

What they would say is everybody uses apps to date.

Everyone hates them.

What if we could solve the problems with the technology with more technology, better technology that can find you a more specific match than the endless scroll of apps?

And they presumably have a whole bunch of different ways to do this.

That's what they say, whether that's like AI agents who can date for you or if it's like AI supercharged matchmaking.

I encountered an app that's called Data-ing.

Which I can imagine stands for data plus dating.

That's right.

And one of the things that it does is it, like, analyzes your, the data about you that's in your phone.

So it looked at my camera roll.

Yeah, I gave it permission to look at all of my photos.

I gave my entire life away for a vague promise that it would find me love.

Go on.

And I should say, like, I am happily married and I'm not looking.

But for the purposes of writing this story, I would say I created a fake profile, but I couldn't actually lie because it was looking at my photos and trying to analyze the kind of person I was and the kind of stuff I liked and what I might be looking for in a partner.

Because most of my photos are of my two beautiful children.

I surmise that I was a parent.