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The End of Online Dating As We Know It

Are you matching with a person or an image created by AI?

George J. Ziogas
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4 min readJan 9, 2025

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There are countless questions out there about how AI will affect our lives in the future.

But the question getting a lot of attention on Reddit and in other forums right now goes right to the heart of human relationships: Will AI-generated images cause the end of online dating as we know it?

Astonishment over AI quality at Reddit

Users at Reddit recently spent a lot of time discussing the increasingly high quality of AI-generated images.

Specifically, in the ChatGPT subreddit, one user posted images of a woman that had been generated with AI, and titled the thread “We Are Doomed.” The discussion focused on the growing impossibility of telling which images have been created by chatbots and other tools, and featured conjecture on what such images would do to online dating apps and sites like OnlyFans.

The images in question were originally created by another user at Reddit, who posted them and asked for feedback on the quality of the images.

Go look at them. Although those commenting point out several anomalies in these images that reveal them to be auto-generated, I think the quality is such that I wouldn’t…

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George J. Ziogas
George J. Ziogas

Written by George J. Ziogas

Editor | Vocational Education Teacher | HR Consultant | Manners will take you where money won't | ziogasjgeorge@gmail.com

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