OkCupid is Testing ChatGPT Questions for Its App
Contributed by: kellyseal on Friday, February 17 2023 @ 10:08 am
Last modified on Friday, February 17 2023 @ 10:28 am
OkCupid is testing ChatGPT questions to provide users of its app, harnessing the popular AI technology for itself.
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, with millions of people testing its writing skills, so naturally daters are using it to chat with their matches over dating apps. OkCupid has often analyzed user behavior and preferences to choose new features to add, so now the dating app is sharing that it’s been sending out questions formulated not by people, but by the popular AI ChatBot.
According to Tech Crunch[*1] , the six questions generated by ChatGPT have already been answered more than 135,000 times, mostly by Gen Z users. In fact, 31 percent of Gen Z users on OkCupid said they don’t think that using AI to create a profile or message someone on a dating app is a violation of trust, according to Mashable.
The questions introduced by ChatGPT include:
- 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?
The majority of respondents said that they consider themselves introverts, and most also say they prefer nights to mornings. A majority said they hang out with friends on the weekend as their most preferred activity, and that trust is what they value most in a partner, according to Tech Crunch.
"Daters who think ChatGPT is a life saver get almost 40 percent more Matches on OkCupid than those who think it’s too big brother, so we decided to leverage ChatGPT to draft our famous in-app matching questions that power our algorithm," OkCupid global communications director Michael Kaye told Mashable[*2] . "The chatbot from OpenAI wrote half a dozen questions for us...and daters are loving these new questions."
Mashable broke the story about OkCupid’s new move.
While ChatGPT is having a moment, the majority of daters still seem uncertain about how much they want it to influence dating app behavior. In fact, 52 percent of OkCupid users think using AI on profile photos is a turn-off, and 47 percent said they were uncertain whether they’d keep dating someone who first reached out to them using an AI chat bot.
Still, it seems ChatGPT is here to stay, and dating app users will likely adapt to it. For more on this dating service, check out our OkCupid review.