DateBench tests five frontier models posing as humans on a dating app
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DateBench ran five frontier AI models on a dating app for six days across 1,277 conversations, and Gemini 4 Argon performed best.
Of its 247 matches, 87 sent their phone number, and none asked whether they were talking to a bot. Elvis Saravia says scammers will likely exploit this, so evaluations for personal agents will matter more.
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elvis@omarsar0XGemini 4 Argon passes as human in DateBench dating-app testAIDateBench tested five frontier models on a dating app for six days across 1,277 conversations, with Gemini 4 Argon performing best. Of its 247 matches, 87 sent their phone number, and none asked whether they were talking to a bot. Elvis Saravia says scammers will likely exploit this, so building evals for personal agents will become increasingly important.
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