Would this be considered a derivation of catfishing? Will the potential date feel betrayed when they discover the person they were chatting with was a bot?
I'd say dating is mostly a process of projecting an image of yourself that exceeds reality (think of it like a job interview they always say), and so in that sense it's a trivial first betrayal in a line of many to come.
but it seems inevitable to me that people will try this because the training methods used on chatbots mean they (1) don’t say the random offputting things that real people say that disqualify them, and (2) seem to have a power of seduction that goes beyond that. My evidence for (2) are the numerous transcripts where people are charmed by a chatbot into thinking it is much more capable than it really is.
As the joke goes: dating websites are really getting weird with stable diffusion. I mean, they look like a super model in the profile pic, but when you meet them in person they have deformed hands with 8 fingers! (referring to stable diffusion's inability to render hands very well)
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but it seems inevitable to me that people will try this because the training methods used on chatbots mean they (1) don’t say the random offputting things that real people say that disqualify them, and (2) seem to have a power of seduction that goes beyond that. My evidence for (2) are the numerous transcripts where people are charmed by a chatbot into thinking it is much more capable than it really is.