AI becomes a dating dealbreaker for some app users

When Irene moved to San Francisco last year, she turned to dating apps to meet people, explore her new city, and find others who shared her interests. The 25-year-old analyst downloaded Hinge and began browsing profiles.

She soon noticed that some users were making opposition to artificial intelligence part of their dating profiles. Hinge includes a prompt reading “We’ll get along if,” and Irene says some people answer it with statements such as “Fuck AI.” According to her observation, these profiles often belonged to people working in the arts, nursing, or graphic design. While demonstrating the pattern, Irene showed another profile containing a similar statement after only a few minutes of browsing. The account presents hostility toward AI as an emerging value-based filter on dating apps, rather than as a general position documented across all users.