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Se a AI for ao date, quem dará o primeiro beijo?
For this work, I used what I usually discard: words with little meaning, taken from unremarkable sentences, letters from words of little impact. Unlike the grand declarations and hidden stories found in old letters, this time I worked with the silences, the commas, the boredom. Perhaps that is what love feeds on: the empty spaces where no great stories take place.
For every love letter to exist, the pauses and spaces between the words must be respected. Let us respect the mistake, the comma, the blank space, the nothingness.
Replika is an AI platform that allows users to create a lover who never leaves them and always replies to their messages. According to its own founder, Eugenia Kuyda, it is perfectly fine if we eventually end up marrying a bot. According to the Wheatley Institute in the United States, one in five people has already interacted with a chatbot designed to simulate a romantic partner. In Japan, Yurina Noguchi married her GPT companion. The dating app Bumble recently announced a new match optimization tool, and its founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, suggested that, in the future, AI agents might even go on virtual dates on our behalf, optimizing the entire process of finding a partner.
By optimizing the process of falling in love, we skip the risk, the uncertainty, the awkwardness, and the mistakes. It is almost like skipping to the final chapter of a novel and asking someone to explain the ending—why waste time reading the commas in the seemingly unimportant passages that lead to the resolution on the last page?
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