This Guy Used ChatGPT to Talk to 5,000 Women on Tinder and Met His Wife
Tinder can be a hard place to find love, especially without an AI assistant.
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Tinder can be a hard place to find love, especially without an AI assistant.
Tinder can be a hard place to find love, especially without an AI assistant.
SPENDING too long on your smartphone may not be so smart for your health.
Taking calls for as little as 30 minutes a week can raise your chances of developing high blood pressure by 12 per cent, a study at China’s Southern Medical University found.
Spending too long on your smartphone may be bad for your health[/caption]
Four hours a week may increase that danger by 16 per cent, and six hours by 25 per cent.
Here, we reveal other ways your handset can affect body and mind — and how to stay well.
NOMO NOT FOMO: If you cannot bear being parted from your handset, this may be “no mobile phone phobia” — dubbed nomophobia.
Leave your phone behind, or well away from you, and gradually increase your time apart from it[/caption]
A YouGov study found 53 per cent of smartphone users feel anxious when they misplace their phone, the battery dies or they have no signal.
Face the fear. Start by leaving the phone behind, or well away from you, and gradually increase your time apart from it.
TINDER FINGER: If you are a non-stop swiper or cannot refrain from texting and have pain in your fingers, this may be a condition known as Tinder Finger, or Texting Thumb.
‘Tinder finger’ can lead to tendonitis if left untreated, and even long-term disability[/caption]
A 2019 study in the Journal of Public Health found that while discomfort may be short-term, it can lead to tendonitis if left untreated, and even long-term disability.
So curb the habit — take breaks from heavy texting or typing every 20 minutes.
PHANTOM PHONE POCKET SYN-DROME: This is when you reckon you had an alert but there are no new messages.
Research in the US, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, found 90 per cent of people suffer from this, when the phone becomes an extension of “you”.
Keeping it on your desk or a nearby table can ease symptoms. If not, cognitive behavioural therapy may help.
NIGHT SCROLLING DAMAGES EYES: We check our phone on average 150 times a day, and a study in Texas found using it late at night raises the risk of long-term eye issues such as macular degeneration — when the centre of the retina, the macula, deteriorates and vision is distorted or lost.
Using your phone late at night raises the risk of long-term eye issues such as macular degeneration[/caption]
For every 20 minutes on the phone, look away for 20 seconds.
Scrolling before bed also affects sleep hormone melatonin, making it hard to nod off — so best not do it.
PILING ON THE POUNDS: Being glued to your phone increases the risk of obesity by 43 per cent, cardio-vascular trouble and even death, say researchers in Colombia from the Simon Bolivar University.
Being glued to your phone increases the risk of obesity by 43 per cent[/caption]
Another study, in 2018 in the journal Physiology and Behaviour, found using a phone while eating increases calorie intake by 15 per cent. All the more reason for no handsets at dinner.
TECH NECK: Smartphones are a pain in the neck — because of the strain caused to this part of the body by constantly eyeing your screen.
Constantly eyeing your phone screen can cause pain in your neck[/caption]
Specialist clinic New York Spine Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine found that at a 15-degree angle, the head weighs 27lb — and at 60 degrees, more than twice that.
Tilting your head from side to side, or up and down, can help.
SCREEN TIME CAN GIVE YOU SPOTS: While more research is needed into the link between phone radiation and skin, a University of Arizona study found handsets are ten times dirtier than a toilet seat.
Cleaning your phone screen regularly should ward off pimple-inducing bacteria[/caption]
Using headsets or simply putting your phone on loudspeaker will limit phone-face contact, and cleaning the screen regularly should ward off pimple-inducing bacteria.
SCROLL LESS TO STAY SHARP: If you often look to your phone for answers to questions you already know, it could make you mentally lazy.
A study in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research found awareness and understanding are reduced if a smartphone is within reach — even if turned off
Tinder is working on an ultra-expensive subscription offering that seems explicitly geared toward those wealthy enough (or at those feigning affluence) looking to swipe right on other semi-influential folks. The company is leaving the door open to abandon the idea altogether, meaning that those with deep pockets would…
And then the Verge tells the story of a 32-year-old technology entrepreneur and self-proclaimed multimillionaire who didn’t see the red flags when a mysterious date on Tinder asked him what kind of car he owned — and told him that when he paid for their hotel room, bring cash…
Yes, he ends up being carjacked at gunpoint in a Tinder car-theft scheme by a largely transient con artist. But then he posts to his 245,000 followers on Instagram — hiring a marketing company to manage a car-recovery campaign. He hears from fences who offer to sell back his car for $30,000 — along with an alleged police informant. There’s good luck and bad luck in this wild tale of car chases, police scanners, a neighborhood they call “Methville,” and an attempt to bring accountability to a 21-year-old catfisher and her two 18-year-old acomplices.
But the story ends with the 32-year-old self-proclaimed multimillionaire back on Tinder, looking for another date.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
A JILTED farmer stuffed apples into the exhaust of her Tinder lover’s car.
Melanie Meigh, 20, turned up at Jack McMahon’s home after he ended their on-off fling.
She spray-painted an obscenity on the wall, let down his tyres, sprayed his exhaust and filled it with apples she had grabbed from a tree.
Meigh also stole cash, Mr McMahon’s passport and a set of spanners.
She went on to make taunting phone calls.
Meigh bragged: “Hope you like apples”, “Cheers for the spanners”, and “I have your passport.”
She also damaged his bike and sprayed another obscenity on his mother’s gate.
The couple met on Tinder and were together for three weeks in Tarporley, Cheshire.
Meigh admitted eight charges including harassment.
The court heard she is currently expecting a child by a different man.
Nastasha McAdam, prosecuting, said: “The complainant and the defendant had known each other for approximately three weeks after meeting on Tinder.
“They were not in a real relationship though they were intimate on several occasions.
“The defendant was there with a friend and was abusive and threatening.”
Meigh was given a community order, a £120 fine and told to pay £100 compensation.
She had offences of common assault and battery on her record from February 2021 involving her adopted mother.
Meigh is currently awaiting the results of a DNA test to confirm whether another ex-boyfriend is the father of her unborn child.
Warrington magistrates also imposed a restraining order.
The launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT this month has ushered in a new era — of social feeds clogged with screenshots and discussions of the chatbot and its seemingly infinite uses. TikTokkers didn’t hesitate to divulge how they’re using ChatGPT: to message Tinder matches.
Using AI in dating apps isn’t new. For years, programmers have been trying to further gamify the game of finding love on your phone. These Tinder users created bots to swipe and message for them and can do so with hundreds of users at a time. It’s no surprise that Tinder bans users who do this, but even the app itself utilizes AI to generate conversation starters:
Those using ChatGPT, however, are putting in a bit more manual effort. Once they match with someone, they ask ChatGPT for an opening message based on their interests. Then they copy and paste the output and send it to their match. And honestly? From what folks are posting on TikTok, it’s working.
One “Tinder veteran” used ChatGPT to generate a poem for the six-foot woman he was messaging. She loved it, saying a guy hadn’t written a poem for her before. The caption on the video claimed this is the “future of Tinder.”
Here’s another example, this time a TikTok user requesting a weight lifting-themed opener. ChatGPT spit out, “Do you mind if I take a seat? Because watching you do those hip thrusts is making my legs feel a little weak.”
Once again, the receiver of the message enjoyed it and soon dropped her Snapchat.
As with using an AI bot to completely use Tinder for you, there are potential ethical concerns at play here; the dominant from these examples is disclosure. How would a match feel if they knew your messages were AI-generated? Are you lying by omission by not telling them a bot actually “wrote” the message? What if they were using ChatGPT to message, too — then would it matter?
These are questions we can’t yet answer but surely will have to grapple with as AI becomes further embedded in our lives. As one TikTok user captioned, “AI just too overpowered.”