--- title: "Cursed New Apps Use AI to Tell You What to Say on Tinder" description: "More AI dating tools are cropping up, as dating app users continue to turn to AI to help them get dates. But should romance be automated?" date: "2023-04-30" modified: "2023-04-30" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cursed-app-ai-tinder" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "ai" - "dating apps" - "online dating" - "the digest" --- # Cursed New Apps Use AI to Tell You What to Say on Tinder ![More AI dating tools are cropping up, as dating app users continue to turn to AI to help them get dates. But should romance be automated?]() *\Image: Getty Images\* ## Rizz We've officially entered a new circle of online dating hell. Meet Rizz, which [according to its App Store profile]() is an AI-powered "dating assistant" that tells Tinder, Hinge, and otherwise dating app users what to say to their online matches. It connects directly to a user's keyboard for easy access, and once installed, all you really have to do is start swiping right — then, from there, just let the bot dictate your every word. Cool. We hate it here. "There's some amount of mental work and barrier to thinking of how to compose a message," Coyne Lloyd, a 35-year-old tech investor and Rizz user, [told *The Washington Post*](). "It's like getting started on a term paper." If you're depressed at the comparison of dating other humans to *writing term papers*: same. ## Sim City And Rizz isn't the only app like this out there. As *WaPo* notes, a few other apps, including one called YourMove.ai, are currently on the market, while a number of dating app scoundrels have [taken to the internet]() in recent months to tout the supposed dating app prowess of ChatGPT. "This past summer, I got really tired of sifting through and trying to come up with responses on dating apps," YourMove.ai founder Dmitri Mirakyan told *WaPo*. "So I tried to see if GPT3 could flirt. It turns out it could. A month later, I built the first version \[of the platform\]." Mirakyan's interest in an app like his, however, seems to go deeper than Lloyd's term paper comparison. Speaking to *WaPo*, he explained that he's always had a difficult time reading social cues — a dating stressor that a tool like YourMove.ai helps to alleviate. "There's such a gap currently," he told the newspaper, "in what people like myself want to communicate and how it comes across." That's sympathetic, in a sense, and we could see how AI assistance might benefit folks who have a tough time socially. At the same time, however, balance is definitely still needed here. Romance is one of the most human things out there, and the digital dating world is [robotic enough as it is](). Do we really want everyone on the apps just passing AI-generated quips and complements back and forth for eternity? That's starting to sound like The Sims — and as humans, maybe we should shoot a little higher. **More on post-AI online dating:** [*Man "Sure" His AI Girlfriend Will save Him When the Robots Take Over*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()