Nearly one in four singles are now using artificial intelligence somewhere in their dating life, and that share has more than quadrupled in a single year. Match’s latest Singles in America study, conducted with researchers at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, found that 26% of singles say they use AI tools to help them date — a 333% jump from the year before.
The technology isn’t showing up the way an app’s built-in matchmaking algorithm might. Singles aren’t letting a platform quietly sort their matches for them. Many are opening ChatGPT or a similar tool on their own, then feeding it a match’s profile or a first message that needs a second look before it gets sent.
- 26% of singles report using AI somewhere in their dating life, up 333% year-over-year.
- 44% say they’d want AI’s help filtering or screening potential matches for compatibility.
- 40% want AI’s help writing or sharpening their dating profile.
- Nearly half of Gen Z singles have already used AI for at least one of those tasks.
Dr. Amanda Gesselman, Match’s director of sex and relationship science, framed the shift as singles treating AI like a backup plan rather than a replacement for their own judgment. “AI isn’t replacing intimacy,” Gesselman said in the release, “it’s giving singles an edge.”
The appetite extends well past the people who’ve already tried it. Forty-four percent of all singles surveyed said they would want AI to help them filter matches for compatibility, and 40% said they would want help crafting a stronger profile. Among Gen Z daters specifically, nearly half have already used AI for one of those jobs, whether that’s polishing a profile or screening someone before agreeing to meet.
That curve hasn’t flattened out. A newer Match Group survey found that 74% of daters between 18 and 39 now use ChatGPT in some capacity, and about 64% said AI has helped them sharpen a profile, tighten up their messages, or plan an actual date, according to Axios’s reporting on the newer data.
Not every part of the AI-and-relationships story is moving that fast. A separate Pew Research Center survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults, published in June, found that only 10% of Americans use chatbots for emotional support and just 4% for companionship. Singles appear to be drawing a fairly sharp line between AI as a practical dating assistant and AI as a stand-in for actual connection.
That distinction may explain why the number keeps climbing instead of leveling off. Nobody’s handing their love life over to a chatbot wholesale. Most are just grabbing a second opinion before they hit send.
