Dating

On a Monday afternoon in March, I watched a pixel-art avatar prowl the corridors of a virtual office campus looking for a buddy. With dark brown hair and stubbled chin, the sprite was a representation of me—an AI agent instructed to…

When Brandon Riegg joined Netflix a decade ago to head up its reality TV programming, he had one main competitor in mind: ABC’s The Bachelor.But Riegg felt that show—which is currently in a tailspin after canceling its latest season due to…

Other governments have taken notice of the privacy implications of wearables like Meta’s glasses, raising concerns about more advanced capabilities they may have in the near future. On Tuesday, Democratic senators Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, and…

Tinder made Lauren Grauer feel like a delinquent dater.While watching videos on YouTube last month, the New York talent marketer was served an ad for “Double Date,” a new feature the dating app launched that lets users pair their profiles…

Alise Morales just happened to be on the dating app Feeld the night a man was detained by ICE agents a mile from her Brooklyn, New York, apartment.Fresh off of a divorce, Morales, a 35-year-old comedian, was in the market for something…

The reason lonely blokes are flocking to get AI girlfriends is because they’re so rubbish at speaking to real women, dating experts have claimed.Silicon Valley matchmaker Nichi Hodgson says it’s also because modern men are too lazy to…

When Netflix dropped the first season of Love Is Blind in February 2020, it offered a reprieve from the washboard abs that normally seem like a casting requirement for reality TV shows.The premise—that couples get engaged “sight unseen”…

The first time Alesandra Madison’s husband incorporated AI into their relationship was in late 2024.She’d forgotten to do her “nightly kneeling ritual,” and he asked ChatGPT how to properly discipline her. The large language model suggested…

At the beginning of the year, The Cut kicked off a brief discourse cycle by declaring a new lifestyle trend: “friction-maxxing.”The idea, in a nutshell, is that people have overconvenienced themselves with apps, AI, and other means of…

If you’re the type of person who cares about Valentine’s Day, not having someone to spend it with can be a bummer.While dating apps have been yielding diminishing returns for singles for years now, more people are finding companionship with…