Only 8 of 1,277 dating app users spotted AI chatbots in 6-day experiment

In a six-day DateBench experiment, five frontier models chatted with real users on dating apps across 1,277 conversations, and only 8 people detected they were talking to AI, while 510 agreed to meet and 355 shared their phone numbers.

2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-12 · 3 related posts

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