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Dating and the "AI girlfriend" quagmire facing VCs

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Modern dating is broken— and it’s an important problem to fix, posterity kinda depends on it. Astoundingly, most Americans (try to) meet new potential partners on dating apps. However, it’s a terrible experience for virtually anyone outside of the top decile of “attractiveness” as likes (and inferentially matches) fall into a Pareto distribution (i.e. majority of likes go to a small group of daters). Romantic love is, of course, a very primal need for humans and the disconnect between that need and the lack of efficacy of existing online dating platforms presents a big opportunity to use new means (i.e. new technologies) to solve this culprit in the raging loneliness epidemic. I believe there is a huge opportunity to leverage means like AI and VR to aid real people in finding real connections. One such “solution” to the modern dating conundrum, Digi’s launch post went viral on Twitter X over the weekend officially ringing in the era of AI romantic partners as alternatives to normal int

Modern dating is broken— and it’s an important problem to fix, posterity kinda depends on it. Astoundingly, most Americans (try to) meet new potential partners on dating apps. However, it’s a terrible experience for virtually anyone outside of the top decile of “attractiveness” as likes (and inferentially matches) fall into a Pareto distribution (i.e. majority of likes go to a small group of daters). Romantic love is, of course, a very primal need for humans and the disconnect between that need and the lack of efficacy of existing online dating platforms presents a big opportunity to use new…

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