A COMPUTER nerd who used AI to virtually date more than 5,000 women in a year says he’s finally found his soulmate.
Software developer Alexander Zhadan, 23, used ChatGPT and other bots to filter out any potential bad matches on Tinder.
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The Russian who had been unlikely in love reduced 5,239 women down to just one – his “AI-endorsed soulmate”, Karina Imranovna.
Alexander revealed his bot weeded out bad matches, “made small talk on his behalf”, booked dates, and eventually even helped him propose, reports Cointelegraph.
He started by developing a system that filtered out any women who had posted explicit photos or whose profiles included zodiac signs.
Alexander said that he began his AI search after his previous girlfriend ended their relationship and he turned to Tinder which he found was a “dead end”.
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The AI bots even reportedly sounded like him when talking to Tinder matches.
“ChatGPT found better girls and chatted longer […] ChatGPT swiped to the right 353 profiles, 278 tags, he continued the dialogue with 160, I met with 12,” he explained.
However, there were a few hiccups in his software.
The AI systems promised to send flowers and chocolates to his potential love interests – without his knowing, leading to disappointed matches.
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After roughly a year, Alexander had managed to scale the number of potential women down to four and soon became “serious” with only one, Karina.
But the tale of AI-inspired love didn’t stop there.
In November 2023, ChatGPT reportedly recommended that Alexander should propose to Karina, who is also in her early 20s.
The chatbot even helped devise a cunning plan for him to propose during a holiday to Hong Kong – even offering the words he could use.
She said yes and the wedding is planned for August 3.
It’s not known what Karina – who recently graduated with an economics degree from a Moscow university – made of the AI selection process that led to her first date with her now fiancée.
A year ago, Alexander reportedly got into trouble after using ChatGPT to write his thesis at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
He was allowed to keep his diploma after admitting what he had done.
“In short, writing a thesis with ChatGPT is cool,” he said.
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“You definitely need to edit it yourself, but the machine produces most of it on its own.”
He and the university “settled with the help of a lawyer,” he said.
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