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Like, what's my ideal man?

Men are not ideal.

Women are not ideal.

Like people are not ideal.

And that's not how people get together.

Like they find each other through circumstance and circumstances.

Well, these companies have a response for that as well.

What is it?

They say, we will be able to know better than you do what you want.

Impressive.

Like we'll be able to intuit something through the profiles that you're liking, through the pictures that you're rating highly as opposed to low, that you cannot articulate yourself.

Yeah.

The promise of these things is like we found the perfect person for you.

Yeah, I mean, I think if you don't think about it in terms of solving human relationships, but instead think about it as maybe marginally improving the experience of online dating, it can sound a lot more interesting.

If you are sick of swiping, it says, let us automate that for you.

Like what if we could get to the 25th man in your queue faster and then you could sort of like assess him and figure out whether it makes sense to go on a date or whatever.

And so given that we're already like in this kind of technological hell, I think that's like, you know, it's a potentially promising opportunity.

But I'd also say that when I was at Love Symposium, like I talked to a lot of people who live in San Francisco, like young people who are dating who are really skeptical of AI.

Why?

Because I think they have been living and working in the tech world for like in some cases their entire lives and they are looking for some kind of escape.