Men using AI as wingmen on dating apps to score dozens of dates a month: 'I hooked up with a baddie in 24 hours'

Men who moan that dating apps favor women are now using AI to ‘even up the odds’ – by creating irresistible pickup lines.

DailyMail.com spoke to Paul, 30, and Eddi, 20, from Florida, who are using chatbots as ‘wingmen’ to generate entire conversations that they claimed have landed them up to five dates a week.

The singles are using apps like Rizz and MGAI that were specifically designed as dating tools that follow text prompts – you can tell the AI to write a message ‘with the the charm of Leonardo DiCaprio.’

Paul told DailyMail.com: ‘The first day I used the AI, I matched with a baddie, got a reply, scored a date, and we hooked up – all in under 24 hours.’

Paul, 30, used AI ‘wingman’ apps to generate openers. He told DailyMail.com that the ‘odds are against you as a guy’ and attractive women will be getting 100 matches a day, making it a ‘numbers game’ for men

Paul told DailyMail.com: ‘The first day I used the AI, I matched with a baddie, got a reply, scored a date, and we hooked up – all in under 24 hours’

‘I have about a hundred better things to do than use my brain to come up with a witty text that’s most likely going to a 16-year-old Indian kid posing as a hot chick so he can scam me for $20,’ said Paul, who is from Miami.

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‘Or to get a 20 percent chance of a reply that most of the time doesn’t go anywhere.

‘Dating apps are a means to an end for me, so whatever I can do to get better results while minimizing exposure to their toxic, dopamine hijacking flows, I’ll do it.’

Paul said he used apps including MGAI and Wing to generate openers and send follow-up messages,

He also explained that the MGAI (Message Game AI) app can be fine-tuned to generate openers that do the job.

‘Just like a lot of AI tools, it takes some prompt engineering to make it churn out a good line,’ said Paul.

‘For example, I have a text snippet that I use to text using: ‘Write with the charm of leo dicaprio and the casualness of Jake Paul. Text like a teenager on snapchat. Avoid punctuation. no Emojis. Don’t be cheesy.’

He said such prompts churn out ‘a slapper opener’ in ‘two to three seconds.’

Paul claimed he can now line up four to five dates a week by spending 10 minutes two times a day texting.

Paul explained that the MGAI (Message Game AI) app can be fine-tuned to generate openers that do the job

Paul said he used apps including MGAI and Wing to generate openers and send follow-up messages

‘I don’t always do that much, but it’s way more efficient. And now I have a surplus, so I can line up more dates than I need and flake when I’m busy or less down,’ he continued.

While most of the women Paul meet are not turned off about him seeking help from software, but he recalled on instance when his date was furious after finding out – but she used a fake photo on her profile.

‘Last Thursday I went on a date to a wine bar and Got catfished, so off to a bad start,’ he told DailyMail.com.

‘She started randomly complaining about AI. Anyway, I told her that texting girls on apps is a waste of time so I used AI to do it for me.

‘She flipped for a minute, got salty and said it was immoral and that I was catfishing her.

‘I told her that’s completely ridiculous, because guys ask their friends to help them out with texts all the time anyway.

Eddie said that Rizz has completely changed his approach to dating

Eddie also explained that Rizz helps him to generate ‘ice-breakers’

‘I also pointed out that she uses AI every day to improve her appearance when she uses filters on IG.’

Paul then snuck off to the restroom and ask AI what the most polite way to tell someone they need to leave a date.

Eddie, aged 20, has been using a different app, Rizz, to write chat-up lines for online dating.

‘The online dating world can be really rough. Endless swiping, lame intros, and ghosting – I was this close to just deleting the apps,’ he said.

The Rizz analyzes the context of conversations and offers pre-written suggestions in how the user would typically respond.

The platform’s website states that users upload screenshots of conversations with their match and the potential bio of the potential mate, and the AI ‘gives you funny, clever, and witty responses that your match won’t be able to resist.’

‘Rizz tailored its suggestions to complement my specific voice and vibe instead of just regurgitating generic one-liners or pickup lines.

‘It brought back a human element to dating apps that we usually only experience in person.’

Eddie said that Rizz enabled him to ‘break through’ in conversations and find dates – and has ‘changed his approach’ to dating.

How ‘AI Wingman’ apps work

Rizz has four million users and has generated more than 50 million messages for men hoping to find dates.

Founder Roman Khaves told DailyMail.com that many dating apps users struggle to find openers – and said, ‘Hey,’ just won’t cut it.

Rizz uses an AI model fine-tuned for dating, with input from dating experts.

‘We have dating coaches, female and male, that help train the model as well, experts in the field, Khavfes said.

‘Rizz improves over time because of user feedback. So the more the more that people use it, the more data that we get on what type of models really work.

‘So every time you get a response, and if you copy a certain response, or if you tweak it, if you want to tell us, okay, make this a little funny, or witty, or make this a little different, we get that data and that helps us train our models.’

‘Ice White’, founder of MGAI, created his app after writing an online dating guide called ‘The Message Game’ – and based it on his own advice..

‘MGAI, short for Message Game AI, is the AI wingman for online dating,’ he said.

‘There are so many guys who don’t know how to message women in a way that actually gets dates, and MGAI solves this problem by using artificial intelligence to read people’s screenshots from any Tinder, Instagram or any other messaging platform and giving back suggested responses, based on what actually works.

‘It all started when I put together a simple Google Docs guide analyzing my own Tinder messages in 2018, which was shared around like wildfire and became super popular overnight.

‘The book became quite a hit in the dating community, which then led me to release a product where people would send me their screenshots for me to give them exactly what to say next. The problem was that this became almost a 24/7 job, and I was also limited to the number of people I could do this for. Eventually, ChatGPT got everyone hyped about artificial intelligence at the end of 2022, and in one single week I had multiple readers of my book proposing to partner with me to make an AI version of my book and, well, myself.

‘There aren’t many things more glorious than receiving messages from users telling me that they got a date within days or even hours of using MGAI. Some guys have managed to get themselves a girlfriend because of it.’

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