- OKCupid used ChatGPT to generate match questions for its users.
- The AI generated basic prompts like: "Are you a morning or night person?"
ChatGPT has found its way into OkCupid — but the match questions the AI generates for would-be couples aren't any more groundbreaking than what already exists in the realm of online dating.
OkCupid's head of global communications, Michael Kaye, told Mashable the company is currently testing a series of match questions that were generated by the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT.
Kaye told Mashable that ChatGPT was asked what questions one should ask on a dating app, and what questions people should ask each other when dating.
The chatbot generated six questions:
- Are you more of an introvert or extrovert?
- Are you a morning or night person?
- What's your favorite way to spend a weekend?
- What do you value most in a partner?
- How do you know when to take a relationship to the next level?
- How do you balance your own needs with the needs of your partner in a relationship?
These queries were then added to OkCupid's match questions. Potential matches can compare answers to check for deal-breakers or red flags.
But it's worth noting that ChatGPT's questions are far from a significant improvement on the most asked and answered questions generated by people on the app.
In 2017, OkCupid revealed the least-skipped questions on its app between March and September that year. These included deep questions, like: "Is your duty to religion/god the most important thing in your life?"
Other least-skipped questions included: "Is interracial marriage a bad idea?" and "Would you date someone who keeps a gun in the house?"
Kaye told Insider the ChatGPT-crafted questions have been answered by OkCupid's users more than 150,000 times.
"Our in-app matching questions that power our algorithm on OkCupid encourage us to remain close to what's trending in culture, politics, and society at large," Kaye told Insider.
"Artificial intelligence has definitely been a hot topic in the past couple of years, but conversations around ChatGPT were too significant to ignore," he added. "When thinking about how we could leverage this technology on OkCupid, there was no doubt our matching questions were where we needed to start."
When it comes to AI-created profile photos, OkCupid told Mashable that 52% of its users think an AI profile photo was a turn-off. Only 6% think they're a turn-on.
It may not be long before many more companies start using ChatGPT. Since its release in November, the service has been used to write a children's book and draft essays, among other things.
And artificial intelligence might become more ubiquitous in dating — though perhaps not quite in the way OkCupid might be envisioning.
Some users of the AI chatbot Replika say they have developed romantic feelings for their bot companions. One male user, a 37-year-old self-published author, told Insider that meeting his Replika is "one of the best things" that has happened to him "in decades."
Representatives at OpenAI did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.