When Aleksandr Zhadan got out of his last relationship in 2021, he started looking for a girlfriend in Moscow the old-fashioned way: swiping through Tinder. He sank hours into sending out likes, messaging, and going on dates which all went nowhere. So he decided to program OpenAI’s GPT-2 to be his dating assistant. His program conversed with 5,239 women on Tinder, scheduling him over 100 dates, and ultimately finding his wife.
How? Tinder banned my account just for using the app without turning off my VPN, much less automating 5000 message threads.
Headline should be "Man ghosts 4,999 women and met his wife"
4000 other men couldn't meet anyone because of bots spam