Online Dating Meets Artificial Intelligence: How the Perception of Algorithmically Generated Profile Text Impacts Attractiveness and Trust

Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2020-12-02 DOI:10.1145/3441000.3441074

Yihan Wu, Ryan M. Kelly

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Online dating systems are widely used to meet romantic partners, yet people often struggle to write attractive profiles on these applications. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help online daters by automatically generating profile content, but little research has explored how the use of AI in online dating could affect users’ perceptions of one another. The present study investigated how the perceived involvement of AI influences ratings of attractiveness and trust in online dating. In a between-subjects experiment, participants (N = 48) were presented with the text of 10 dating profiles and were told that the profiles had been written by humans or with the help of AI. We found that the perceived involvement of AI did not have a significant impact on attractiveness, but that it did lead to a significant reduction in trustworthiness of the profile author. We interpret our findings through the lens of social information processing theory, discussing the tradeoffs associated with designing to reveal or hide the use of AI in online dating.

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在线约会遇到人工智能:算法生成的个人资料文本的感知如何影响吸引力和信任

在线约会系统被广泛用于寻找浪漫的伴侣，然而人们往往很难在这些应用程序上写出有吸引力的个人资料。人工智能(AI)有可能通过自动生成个人资料内容来帮助在线约会者，但很少有研究探讨在在线约会中使用人工智能会如何影响用户对彼此的看法。目前的研究调查了人工智能的感知参与如何影响在线约会的吸引力和信任评级。在一项受试者之间的实验中，参与者(N = 48)看到了10份约会简介的文本，并被告知这些简介是由人类或人工智能帮助撰写的。我们发现，人工智能的感知参与对吸引力没有显著影响，但它确实导致个人资料作者的可信度显著降低。我们通过社会信息处理理论的视角来解释我们的发现，讨论了在设计中揭示或隐藏人工智能在在线约会中的使用的权衡。

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