“Your Personal Digital Cupid: This Chatbot Filters Your Dating App Matches for You”

“This Chatbot Screens Your Dating App Matches for You”

“As part of an overhaul for a dating platform due for 2023, a group of mobile designers decided to mimic the sensation of meeting at a party, with attendees drifting in and out of view.” But to add a cherry on top, they cranked up the awkward factor. Buckle up, singles! You’re in for a ride.

Indeed, folks, the future of online dating is here and it’s proudly strapped in a digital bouncer, who’s also a chatbot, to filter out your potential match. Welcome to the brave new world of involuntary surveillance, Volar style!

Volar has taken the task of curating a date list from your whimpering, indecisive hands into the firm grip of its AI chatbot, who will serve as the gatekeeper to your future love life. With Volar, there’s no swiping left or right. Instead, engage in a riveting conversation with an AI designed to determine whether you are fit to chat with the real-life person.

Questions like, “What do you do in your spare time?” “What’s your preferred top pizza topping?” and other such deep, revealing queries will stand between the hopeful single and their potential match. Fret not, though. This screening process is definitely not dystopian. Not at all.

Remember folks, it’s all because Volar wants to enhance authenticity in the digital dating world because, clearly, nothing says “authentic” more than feeding personal anecdotes to a chatbot before you get to have a one-on-one with an actual human being.

In case users try dodging the question or hesitating, the chatbot reacts by asking another question. Some might call it determination. Others may deem it as advanced nagging. But one thing’s for certain: Mobile designers have managed to cage the chaotic thrill of meeting new people at parties into the rigorous rigmarole of a digital questionnaire. Party on.

On Volar, instead of eyeing someone from across the room and deciding to take the plunge, users must pass an Al-powered examination first. The chatbot, swift in its judgment, will order undesirables (as per its logic, of course) to ‘try again later.’ This is the dawn of the AI-chaperoned romance era!

Never before has the dating game been so easily gatekept, so scrupulously screened. And always remember, Volar’s chatbot knows best. After all, what’s more trustworthy than an AI judging your potential for romance? Your gut instincts perhaps? Oh, please!

Are you ready to engage in a later version of ‘speed-dating’, now aptly referred to as ‘screen-dating’? Brace yourselves, Volar members. This isn’t your average ‘meet cute’.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/volar-dating-app-chatbot-screen-matches/