OkCupid is testing match questions generated by ChatGPT

...do OkCupid match questions matter any more? AFAIK they long ago demoted "has a high match percentage" to being just one search-lens among many (one that's not taken into account in the weighting for any other search filter); removed the ability to search by question-answer; and removed all the previous gamifiication that got people answering more than the initial few match questions (so nobody who joined the service after ~5 years ago has more than the initial 10 onboarding questions answered.)

As far as I can tell, the whole "Q&A compatibility-vector fingerprint-matching" thing is just completely vestigial now, and OkCupid has just become another marque of the dating-industrial complex that is Match Group/IAC.

So, given that context, I'm kind of surprised that they're bothering with things like this this!

What would be much smarter would be using user chat histories plus match scores to simulate initial small talk between users which leads either to a simulated rejection, ghosting, or escalation to further steps. Then suggest escalated matches to each side and if mutual interest lead each into the post-small talk conversation to pick up from there providing an inherent ice breaker.

If it's not Match, it will be someone else, but this is definitely going to be the future of online dating. Simulated speed dating.

The issue is that OpenAI doesn't allow romantic context. There are independent players who would address is better. My friend is building https://exh.ai/ that actually has dating as a dedicated category, and I know that the quality required for dating context is very different from what ChatGPT can produce