Dating is exhausting, so I let a chatbot flirt for me. Things got weird fast

[LinuxBender]

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?

[hotpotamus]

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.

[westi]

https://archive.is/HG1vv

[lisasays]

If you start off bullshitting people, right of the gate -- you deserve whatever "weirdness" comes your way as a result.

[Awelton]

This was my immediate opinion as well. No doubt they were doing this with a profile picture from 8 years and 20 lbs ago too.

[seanmcdirmid]

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)