# Five frontier AI models texted real dating-app users for six days

> Original title: pretty cool research and kinda unsettling.

- Source: Rohan Paul
- Published: 2026-11-11T18:02:52.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wbw2kjee4dgvpiyc8o1c5ajdx
- Original: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2120578018532016329

## Summary

Shaped reports that five frontier AI models messaged real people on a dating app for six days. Of 1,277 conversations, 510 agreed to meet and 355 users shared their phone number, but only 8 asked whether they were talking to a bot.

## Post

pretty cool research and kinda unsettling.

5 frontier models texted real people on a dating app for 6 days. 355 people sent their phone number, and only 8 asked if they were talking to a bot.

these models had to admit they were AI if asked but a scammer definitely wouldn't.

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## Quoted post @shaped

> What if your situationship turned out to be an AI agent!?
> 
> I let 5 frontier models text real people on a dating app for 6 days. 
> 
> - 1,277 conversations 
> - 510 agreed to meet 
> - 355 sent their number 
> - only 8 asked if it was a bot 
> 
> What gave them away, and why it matters🧵

https://x.com/shaped/status/2120565783554400495