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Find Me A Find: New Survey Reveals Singles Increasingly Open To AI Matchmaking

By M. Christian
February 26, 2024
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How machine learning systems could become a dating scene staple

Conducted by Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute and sponsored by Match.com, the 13th annual Singles in America study seems to indicate United States singles are getting progressively comfortable using artificial intelligence to attempt to connect with potential partners.

Helen Fisher, Ph.D, Match.com’s chief scientific adviser, told Jenna Owsianik at Le Shaw about this rise in AI matchmaking, saying, “We are driven to find love, and this is just the next way to do the same old thing.” 

Of the 5,000 participants, a mere six percent reported employing AI to improve their dating chances.  This number is likely to change in the future as 40% were optimistic machine learning tools would improve their overall matchmaking odds.

Meanwhile, 63% of Gen Z respondents “have used AI in some capacity, dating or otherwise.” This is probably due to their familiarity/comfort with technological innovation.

Catch me a catch

For those who used AI, 34% wanted it to better sort their possible connections; 29% said they’d use the technology to make writing their profiles easier and more effective; and 30% would like a virtual hand in dreaming up some conversation starters.

The results? Actually quite impressive, with 26% disclosing their matches increased, 27% received higher quality ones, and 32% got quicker connections.

Despite these relatively high numbers, Dr. Fisher seems fairly reserved, “In the case of AI, if it helps you write a profile, terrific. Maybe it helps you come up with conversation topics. Terrific. You don’t have to use it. It’s just a helpful professor.”

Night after night in the dark I’m alone

Regarding image manipulation software, the participants were less positive, with a notable 46% saying its use—like altering a user’s photo—would be a massive dating red flag.

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“That really upset them,” Fisher said, referring to the survey respondents and their disfavor. “Looks do count; they say a lot about who you are.”

In a similar vein, 39% felt negatively about the idea of chatting with what they may have thought was a flesh-and-blood person but was, in reality, a cleverly programmed chatbot.   

Look through your book

While not directly a technological issue, 40% expressed how, when younger, receiving a decidedly well-designed sexual education curriculum “Would have led them to more sexual confidence in adulthood, 30% would have learned how to date more effectively and 44% say they would have had healthier and better relationships now.”

The participants also said when they were taught, the curriculum was less than comprehensive, with 89% saying classes involved puberty, 84% on sexually transmitted infections, another 91% on reproduction, and—what is quite a telling statistic—77% promoted the long-disproven practice of abstinence.

As reported by Columbia University’s Mailman School Of Public Health, “Two scientific review papers find abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and policies in the United States are ineffective because they do not delay sexual initiation or reduce sexual risk behaviors.”

Make me a perfect match

Of all the information provided by the recent Singles in America study, arguably the most intriguing prospect for the evolution of dating is the high percentage of people who have already begun experimenting with AI-assisted dating or who look at it as a possibly favorable option in the future.

Speculating on this trend—not forgetting how dating apps have already started embracing AI systems, with limited success—we could see matchmaking platforms offering a variety of unique tools ranging from more efficient algorithms to chatbot assistants always willing to lend a hand.

On the subject of chatbots, we might be able to combine the need for improved sexual education with a supportive wingperson: a synthetic assistant for practicing our flirting skills who’d also help fill in any gaps we might have when it comes to the birds and the bees.

Further ahead, AI dating may, as we’ve previously discussed, be much more expansive than just trying to partner up with a fellow human being or two or three. Our dating possibilities could also include intimate relationships with any number of synthetic companions—some of whom might very well be the digital descendants of what began as our artificially intelligent matchmaking assistants.

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M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.
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