Shaped reports results of AI dating-app experiment
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Shaped reports that five frontier AI models messaged real dating-app users for six days.
Of 1,277 conversations, 510 agreed to meet and 355 users shared their phone number. Only 8 users asked whether they were talking to a bot. The report comes from a post by Rohan Paul on X, which quotes Shaped's account of the experiment.
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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiXFive frontier AI models texted real dating-app users for six daysAIShaped 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.

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