I Used AI Photos on My Dating Profile and...No One Even Noticed?? | Cosmopolitan - video Dailymotion

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Dating writer Meg Schaltegger bravely tried out Photo AI for her dating profile pics to see if her dates noticed. And guess what? They, umm, didn't really.

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00:00 When I showed my friends, they were like, "That's not you."

00:02 (record scratches)

00:03 Because they know me so well,

00:04 but he's not gonna know me at all, so I will report back.

00:08 (upbeat music)

00:10 - Hey guys, come on in.

00:14 I am a New York City writer.

00:16 I do a lot of dating and relationship content,

00:19 especially at Cosmo, but elsewhere too.

00:21 It's fun, I can't complain.

00:23 Other times, I am up 'til one in the morning

00:26 in my bed writing like a little goblin,

00:28 so it's glamorous until it's not.

00:30 In rom-com, there is always the happy ending,

00:33 and I think in real life dating,

00:35 there's a lot of heartbreaks and difficulties,

00:38 and I write about that.

00:39 I have gone on so many dates from different dating apps.

00:43 I've had successful dates,

00:45 and I've also had really bad experiences too.

00:47 Sometimes being on the dating app is a burning hellscape,

00:50 and sometimes it is fun.

00:51 I think it depends on the mood I'm in.

00:53 Sometimes it is fun to have a glass of wine

00:55 and swipe through, and sometimes you're swiping through

00:57 and you're like, no, no, no, no.

00:59 I am writing an article about my experience

01:03 using AI photos on my own hinge.

01:05 I'm going to use AI technology to place myself

01:09 in different scenarios and different places

01:11 and see if the men bring it up.

01:13 I'm gonna put myself in Paris or as a valedictorian.

01:17 I wanna do a couple that are a little outrageous

01:19 to see if it really sparks a conversation,

01:21 'cause I wanna know if they're looking.

01:22 I wanna know if they're gonna ask me questions about it,

01:26 and then I wanna see how I then handle it,

01:28 because I honestly have no idea what I'm gonna do

01:30 when someone asks me.

01:32 The program that I'm using,

01:33 I'm gonna input around 20 photos of myself,

01:36 and I believe it creates an actual avatar of me

01:39 that looks super realistic,

01:41 that I can put in different scenarios.

01:43 So I can create photos and experiences

01:45 that never actually happened.

01:47 Slap them up on my dating app,

01:48 and let's see if we can trick some men.

01:50 I'm just scrolling through my Instagram,

01:51 so I can try to find some photos

01:55 to throw in the AI program.

01:56 Maybe a closeup, think of my eyes.

02:00 So I think we're probably good on that.

02:05 I'm gonna start to create my AI characters.

02:09 So I'm gonna upload my photos.

02:10 It says that this will take 49 minutes,

02:12 and then you can start doing your first photo shoot

02:14 with your AI characters.

02:15 I had to put in my name, my gender, my age,

02:18 my eye color, my body type, my ethnicity.

02:22 I have to basically write a prompt now.

02:25 I am going to put my AI character

02:29 at a book signing as if I wrote a book.

02:31 Let's see if it looks anything like me.

02:33 It looks nothing like me.

02:37 I think the hair looks maybe the closest.

02:39 It's not giving me, that's not me.

02:43 She has blue eyes, I don't have blue eyes.

02:45 They all kinda look a little bit different too,

02:47 just ever so slightly.

02:49 And now I have no face in this AI.

02:51 Yeah, I don't love the dress that they chose for her.

02:53 And what is this necklace?

02:55 What is the dress and what is the necklace?

02:57 I would never.

02:58 I'm gonna have to potentially find new photos,

03:01 crop them perfectly, only so you see my face,

03:05 and then give it a go, and I'm really curious

03:07 to see if then it's gonna look like me.

03:09 I tossed them up there thinking it would totally

03:11 just figure out who I was if I wanted to look realistic,

03:14 which I do for the experiment.

03:15 It's gonna take me a while to actually make it look good

03:18 and look like me.

03:19 I think that some people are very into themselves

03:23 and maybe not going to really take the time

03:26 to look or ask the questions,

03:28 but I think someone that's actually worth dating,

03:31 they would ask the questions.

03:32 They'd be like, "Oh wow, you went here, you did this.

03:34 "Let's talk about it."

03:35 So it's almost kind of like a test.

03:38 Do they wanna know about my fake trip to Japan?

03:40 We're gonna see.

03:41 I'm going on this date with this guy.

03:44 We texted a little bit.

03:45 He hasn't brought up anything about my profile,

03:47 and I'm really curious to see if he will.

03:50 I have a photo of myself in front of the Eiffel Tower.

03:52 When I showed my friends, they were like,

03:54 "That's not you," because they know me so well,

03:56 but he's not gonna know me at all, so I will report back.

04:00 I admittedly don't really feel like going

04:02 on this date right now,

04:03 but I keep reminding myself that it's for science.

04:07 Okay, so I just got back.

04:08 It was a fine date.

04:09 Literally didn't ask me one thing about my profile.

04:11 Honestly, he didn't ask me a lot about myself in general.

04:13 He talked a lot.

04:14 I asked a lot of the questions, which I hate

04:16 when I feel like I have to carry the date,

04:18 and I feel like I didn't get any research out of it.

04:19 So another day, another date.

04:21 It was okay.

04:22 I even baited him a little in the beginning.

04:24 Obviously, I dyed my hair, so I look different

04:26 than in a lot of my dating app photos.

04:28 I was like, "Oh, you might not recognize me.

04:30 "I have dark hair now," and he's like,

04:31 "Oh, come on, you still look the same."

04:33 So didn't take the bait.

04:35 Didn't really ask me a lot about the photos

04:37 or even my prompts.

04:38 Do I think there's gonna be a second date?

04:40 No.

04:41 All right, y'all, today we are very excited and relieved

04:43 because the dating app experiment is over.

04:47 I really miss dating with my own face.

04:49 I don't know if moral of the story is that men are oblivious,

04:53 not to generalize, but at least the ones that I went out with

04:55 or they just don't care.

04:57 We're guys avoiding asking those questions

04:59 because they did think that my photos look fake.

05:01 I have a lot of questions.

05:02 I think it's going to educate the way

05:04 that I date moving forward.

05:05 I'm excited to date in a whole new way.

05:09 So wish me luck.

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