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With AI evolving throughout many aspects of life, including the dating market, Jaime Bronstein, LCSW, relationship coach and author of MAN*ifesting: A Step-By-Step Guide to Attracting the Love That’s Meant for You and host of “Love Talk Live” on Los Angeles Talk Radio, had a lot to say about the effects of AI on Gen Z dating.
ACHDA Digital Media Generation had the opportunity to interview Bronstein about how AI has transformed how younger people use dating apps.
“If you’re using AI to write messages, then you’re seeming like a certain personality… and then you actually meet [them] in person, and it’s different, then that could cause problems,” Bronstein said. “Then you show up, and if whoever’s doing it is saying they’re a different age or anything, it’s false advertising.”
AI has evolved so much in the dating market that it could change dating apps permanently in the long run.
“It’s only going to get more saturated or whatever, more people are going to be using it, and it’s going to seem more normal,” Bronstein explained.
For Gen Z folks who may have social anxiety and have never had a relationship experience before, Bronstein suggests that AI could be helpful in that regard.
“If there’s someone who has never had a relationship before, then I think having that practice of conversations, it actually could help,” she said. “I think it’s this fine line, you don’t want to do it for too long, because it is still not human.”
Bronstein continues: “So it’s like if you’re having a course or class on how to be more confident, and you have practice. You take the class, and then you actually go into the real world. I think it can be helpful but then just make sure that you [re]enter the real world also.”
When applying AI dating to anyone in her life personally, Bronstein would not recommend it for her young son if he were to get older and become curious about dating himself.
“He happens to be the opposite of social anxiety. I think only if I had a friend who had a child who was really struggling,” Bronstein said. “I’ve had clients years ago where I worked with younger kids like in their early 20s, not a lot, but I think there are certain people it could have helped.”
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