Honestly that's what I expected this to be from the title.

I did briefly consider making a "Twitch plays Tinder" back when "Twitch plays X" was a thing - before I thought about it for two seconds and realized the horrifying ethical and privacy considerations.

That depends who you let generate the photo.

For men at least these apps aren't designed to get you a relationship (for young people at least) so it would be interesting to see whether it cracked the code so to speak, but golden rules are very much to be attractive and to not be unattractive.

you should first try these pickup lines on Siri, lets see how it goes. (that would be unit test for pickup lines)

Please don't; this is unethical.

Another poster also commented on the ethics of this. I'm interested in this view - what about this is unethical? Is it the catfishing aspect? Or is it that you would be exposing various tinder profiles to the world at large?

In either of those situations, I can't see how this crosses ethical lines. It is perhaps somewhat dickish, but I don't think being an asshole is unethical.

Unless there's some third option of unethicality that I haven't considered?

> but I don't think being an asshole is unethical.

Maybe I don't know the right meaning of "ethics", then.

But putting bots on dating apps is lying to people on the other side, and hurts them, in a very intimate and personal way. People put time and emotional energy considering their matches and whether to swipe etc, and the resonance of the conversation. So you're polluting that space, both with the catfishing / leading people on, or (more likely) confusing them and making them question themselves / their profile / how to relate to other humans. Is that not unethical to you? Have you talked to people who have been victims of that? My gf was actually quite afraid that I was a bot when we connected; it almost blocked our chance.

What's the unethical bit? Making unsuspecting humans parts of a Turing test?

Imagine the bot would be actually good at it and the human on the other side falls in love with it. Only to later find out it was a machine all along. Depending on the mental stability of this human, the results may be devastating. But at least we have a bot that passes a turing test.

Wonder if we are going to have people in future who would marry chat bots.

Hmm, good point, thanks.

Is it more unethical than filtering and photoshopping, lying about age and height, and using really old photos?

Yes, because it is all those things (which are bad) and just a bit worse. Do you disagree?

In sales it's called lead generation.

do you think autonomous driving is unethical too? According to the currently prevailing view even if a bot does it for you, you're still considered a driver as the bot is just a tool that you're using to accomplish a goal. Or if we just limit the scope to writing - do you think using a tool like grammer.ly is unethical?