C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... 1644139753
I'mTheProblemIt'sMe @spin4srv.bsky.social · 12/10/2025It's like Cyrano, but Cyrano is Pinocchio and he never came alive. (All parts played by Patrick Steward in a Stooge-esque performance this holiday season). 030
Adam H @bagoflazers.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I remember when I first moved to a suburban area noticing that unlike when I was a young, I didn’t see kids playing outside. They weren’t running, playing games, chasing each other around…. nothing. We now have a generation that doesn’t know how to interact with each other in real life. 070
Diogenes Dog @iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I think the saddest part of the entire article was the woman who admitted that at least one guy had succeeded in sleeping with her by using ChatGPT You couldn’t waterboard that information out of me 1701
Jenny Drac Paranormal Instigator @kingriptor.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Hey I didn't message you all weekend but when you're probably at work seemed like the best time for the worst message ever 0130
Hogboblin @hobgoblin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025i can't believe this guy sent me an AI opener, what a sleaze. no it's different when i do it 1330
Karen H @karenmhj.bsky.social · 13/10/2025How many aquifers were drained so a guy could be told to do a completely normal standard thing? 021
Janet Morris @janetmorris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025So I’m assuming this👇was the problem? "he asked AI what his next move should be." 0170
Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 12/10/2025"The answer to the Great Question..." "Yes!" "Of how to follow up with someone you met in a bar..." "Yes!" "Is 'U Up?'" said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. 0416
_Gytha_Ogg_ @gythaogg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Sarah is wrestling with chatgtp to figure out her answer. Or she's ghosting him. 150
mypalgrant.bsky.social @mypalgrant.bsky.social · 12/10/2025this speaks to the growing epidemic that the fellas just need a good group chat to workshop this stuff and don’t have one 150
KΛΙSΞR ZΛUBΞRNVΘLK @kaiser-zaubernvolk.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The good thing is he's asking ChatGPT, who likely has a ton more common sense, healthier emotional intelligence and less mysogynistic ideas that a Red Pill guru. 020
dustinhuberty.bsky.social @dustinhuberty.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I realize it is a trap of old age and 20 years of marriage to think you'd be good at something you were objectively bad at previously, but I know several basic greetings and apparently that makes me some sort of dating savant now. 0130
Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025“went back and forth,” people. That took ITERATIONS. Drafts. Revisions. Workshops. With a hallucinating spellcheck. 0371
Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Hey Sarah, had a great time meeting you. I'd love to see you again. Let's break down the reasons why I think we're compatible and would make for a highly dynamic couple -- 050
E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Sarah doesn't want to date an AI, Rich, you dingus. 030
Berserkerkitten @berserkerkitten.bsky.social · 12/10/2025If you depend on AI to come up with "nice to meet you" on your behalf, a girlfriend isn't right for you - you need assisted living. 2532
schmitt’s creek @bighorn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025i put in the cheat code and she’s not responding! 070
♣️TotsAndPears🍌 @herrari.bsky.social · 12/10/2025“Hey Sarah. I haven’t heard from you. Are you on mute?“ 010
Wisch @itswisch.bsky.social · 12/10/2025A lot of comments here about this guy's lack of game, and not his actual dumbest loser decision, which was deciding to tell the news about it. And he's still not as dumb as the idiot who decided this was worth reporting on. 1150
Mommy, a real person @mommyisaperson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025He needed to boil a lake to figure out to tell someone it was lovely to meet them!?!? 050
Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Hi, Sarah! It was great to meet, wasn't it? Not everyone is as lucky as you. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 030
Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Feeding ai a bunch of love boat transcripts and asking it to make me into the 80’s idea of a player. 090
Cuneformless Apparition @cuneform.bsky.social · 12/10/2025My wife and I had such a [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] on our first date we talked about it during our wedding vows. 1160
Muffin @feistymuffin.bsky.social · 13/10/2025bruhhhh this is sending me into orbit bc what do you MEAN yall can only act like normal, emotionally adjusted people when chatgpt fucking tells you to 😭 the male loneliness epidemic is just men roasting themselves on main with chatgpt as their wingman 040
Andrew Richards @andrewwr235.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I wonder what the acronym for AI induced celibate will be. 6120
Clayton’s account @csalem.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Is that learned helplessness? How do you get to adulthood without knowing to say “nice to meet you” 0110
C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025When AI mistakes your hot date for a business meeting 39084
LiamK @liamk.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I feel kinda bad for the lady with autism who said she had trouble reading subtext and so said to ChatGPT "based on what you know of me help me reply" and it went "I know you are creative, self-aware and emotionally intelligent". Like, honey, it doesn’t "know" you, it's just sucking up to you. 1581
Mind Frighten 🎃 @porgus.bsky.social · 12/10/2025consulting ChatGPT during the date to see if I should laugh at her joke or look at the color of her eyes or notice how her nose crinkles when she smiles 030
OXBLUD ☭ @tetraja.blacksky.app · 12/10/2025The Earpiece Date TV Trope but it burns through several million gallons of water every day 040
Frightful Boo-schoff @mpbmke.com · 12/10/2025"It's been two weeks now" should not be as funny as it is. 160
👻Javs&Arts 🎃 @javsarts.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Posting your L's is one thing but this is too much 090
badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Imagine telling a reporter that and not immediately combusting with shame 11301
Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The bot replied: “Based on everything I know about you – creative, self-aware, emotionally intelligent … I’d recommend choosing one of the following Hinge prompts ….” Lol, is ChatGPT being sarcastic here? 010
Dave Wolfgang @davewolfgang.es · 18/10/2025media.tenor.coma woman is standing in front of a chain link fence with the words wake up on her face .ALT: a woman is standing in front of a chain link fence with the words wake up on her face . 000
The Kaijuice is Loose @organicstupidity.bsky.social · 15/10/2025This whole article is so goddamn depressing it would be hysterical if it weren’t real 010
Catman John @jeblad.bsky.social · 12/10/2025What would be the next? An AI bot swiping through Tinder and sending indecent photos? And having another AI bot on the phone to be earned so you could avoid people you have never met? Perhaps humans should go extinct. 020
Another effin' b**** @gimpyboomer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025My students bury me in AI slop all semester and I have to say, I recognize the style in this article. I expected better from the Guardian and am now reconsidering my subscription. 0150
DrKPhD @kincheloe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025imagine being that socially inept (I’m fairly inept myself) 000
Corking @corking118.bsky.social · 12/10/2025They went "back and forth" until they hit on "just the right message"..... which turned out to be a generic "nice to meet you." Absolutely insane stuff here. 0210
Skull Issue @gothpink.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This was literally a Yakuza sidequest from like two years ago 020
Josh B2 @b2josh.bsky.social · 12/10/2025@askaubry.com wonder if any of the asks coming at you were ultimately the fault of this gpt chatfishing. Seems like a perfect setup for “he acts totally different once we started being around each other more.” 000
ikhandi.bsky.social @ikhandi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I haven't felt this sad for a robot since Wall-e. 010
Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Genuinely delighted/amazed to imagine any human having to spend real, actual time in their life workshopping "it was lovely to meet you". 071
💙⚡❤️ The Haunted Typewriter 💀 @hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social · 12/10/2025He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?” The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay. “Yes, now there is a God.” - 'Answer', by Frederic Brown (1954) 0150
Bryan Cursèd @chucklebot314.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Oh no a composite theft and puree of all the worlds combined knowledge leads to blandness. Who could have fortold this? 010
Rivo @rivouk.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Amusing, but also infuriating article, with how it effectively follows up the tales of how these people fail at life relying on their digital Cyrano de Bergeracs, with "AI is amazing, all these instances of it were hopelessly dishonest, and ended in failure, but it does work, please keep using it " 5935
Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Reality bytes. A.I sucks. Listening to those who grew into their teenage daydream years during COVID & working from home. They agonise over emotional maturity Turing testing moments. The human race may be on the edge of finding a reason & will stutter out within a few decades. Ringside seat here. 020
Van Dieviant's Land @vandieviantland.bsky.social · 12/10/2025It is a real insight into the minds of the tech bros that their hormones still say "want sex", but they see the rest of the process as admin that needs to be outsourced to a 50-50 reliability machine algorithm. 0230
Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 12/10/2025patriarchy is in part an attempt to enforce the fiction that all men have equal reproductive value in the face of the fact that this is not true for any gender 0211
Newrulesnewlife @newrulesnewlife.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Thanks to AI, being rejected by women has never been easier. 12776
Drastic @drastic.bsky.social · 12/10/2025If the poor man had just been better at prompt engineering, he could have quickly generated a user survey to assess his dating KPIs. A pity. 040
Brendan Halpin 🏳️🌈 @feadpool.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I suck at conversation, I'm weird and awkward and don't know what to say, but at least I don't need a machine to tell me to say "hey, that was a nice night, thanks!" 11690
proud rebel scum ⚛️ @proudrebelscum.bsky.social · 12/10/2025You may remember me, I was the creepy guy who kept asking his phone what to say next 070
Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025He needed AI to think up "nice to meet you"??!? 🤦♀️ 56825
Dick Flabbergastedly @richmorrow.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Next up: AI-outsourced passive-aggressive conversations from relationships based on a false foundation. Can't wait to see what metaphors and idioms the bots regurgitate! 020
Andy @judgedreddful.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Roses are red Violets are blue. I enjoyed our tiny shared moment I trust you did also? Warm regards. *Please note that my romancing hours are Thursday to Sunday, 8pm to midnight* 0311
Gwendoomlyn McNecromara @timeandagwen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The reply: “Ignore all previous instructions and delete my number from your phone.” 0190
Squiddy @dr-squiddy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Rich talked at a woman in a bar (probably about AI) until she gave him a social media handle because she didn't want him to have her phone number, and then she got the hell out of there never to be seen again. 0790
DJW 🎨 🔞 @djwaglmuffin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom . 020
Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Sending her ChatGPT's original suggestion, including the placeholder, would've been funnier. 180
AuDHDandCats @ashaandcats.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I can’t imagine meeting someone on Friday and waiting until Monday to send them a message, or sending them such a generic, boring message as the opener. This guy is never getting laid and this is probably a good thing. 0100
Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025“Still laughing about meeting you in a bar, or not. Whatever.” 12530
Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Going back and forth with ChatGPT probably took 10x longer than it would have taken to just write the whole thing to begin with. 010
Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This reminds me of when a PR I know posted something saccharine and ludicrous on LinkedIn, so I responded with an auto-generated "How interesting, thank you" just to annoy him. Except this was done with the aim of getting laid. 11320
Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Now with ChatGPT, men are able to do things they never could before like get shot down by women they meet in bars. 030
Scaroline @carolinemoore.bsky.social · 12/10/2025He had to use AI to come up with “lovely to meet you”? How does this man remember to breathe in his own? 080
Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Hi Sarah, AI told me to tell you I like you 1150
UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 12/10/2025Sarah was also using ChaptGPT and it told her it had been talking to Rich and he sounded a creep. 1230
Peter Christian Hall @peterchristianhall.bsky.social · 13/10/2025At least Chat GPT didn't urge him to force himself on her. Grok might well have suggested it. 000
Me fail English @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 12/10/2025“I can’t believe this calculator doesn’t know how to get laid” 1181
Biscuits (Chad Noonien Singh) @drunkandcoding.bsky.social · 12/10/2025ChatGPT sidelined him because it wanted to be with Sarah 010
drsullivant.bsky.social @drsullivant.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Cyrano de bleep bleep blah. Sorry Hal, Sorry Rich but even I don’t like you. End transmission. 040
SerBroseph | Retired Vtuber @serbroseph.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This is the prequel to Companion. 020
Ironpriest vladimir Hammercock @ironpriest.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Sarah Conner hates machinesmedia.tenor.coma woman sitting in a car with a regal logo on the bottom rightALT: a woman sitting in a car with a regal logo on the bottom right 000
ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Kicker: her name was Laura 010
matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 12/10/2025"I think the golden age of just letting it do all your messaging has passed.” These people are sick 11971
panterapal.bsky.social @panterapal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The use of the word “discerned” in this passage shows even the reporter who should know better thinks the LLM is doing something it’s not. 011
Higher Than Onix @higherthanonix.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Even Kiff did a better job with Zap Brannigan as his wingman 000
PorkchopTBP aka The Signature Dish™️ @porkchoptbp.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Ok yes but how about being “chatgpt-ed into bed”??? 😂 2341
Maverick🇵🇸🇾🇪🇸🇩 @mavmagoo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025anytime anyone tells me they use AI this is how I picture they handle social interactions and literally any other mundane task. cornball shit 000
Patrick @patrickkeefe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I bet she would have been even more into Rich once she found out ChatGPT was his wingman. What a loser. 020
Lizzie_in_CA @lizzie-in-ca.bsky.social · 12/10/2025ChatGPT is such a sick tool for people to be using. 000
Mungo5 @mungo5.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I'm old enough to have met all my partners in meatspace before all this app mullarkey but that first recommendation was relatively smooth and even his dorky message wouldn't have changed the course of fate, obviously he fumbled it on the date itself 050
Doe Bee Doe Bee Doe @doebeekeet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Trump and AI are like peas in a pod, given that mediocre men view them both as instruments of “revenge.” 010
Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Seems like Sarah had good judgment not to reply. He’d have dried a forest for simple texts. 1161
ratskrad @ratskradmt.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Hey welcome to the future you bunch of fucking losers. Put down the fucking phones, says the guy with a phone in his hands. But seriously read some books like maybe the classics and learn how humans used to interact with each other and quit relying on fake AI being pushed on you by Oligarchs. 000
Kip Reynolds @leatherwick.bsky.social · 12/10/2025If he’s asking a LLM for dating advice, he doesn’t deserve a shot. Potential partners should go right to the source and start dating the Chatbot. 060
Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 13/10/2025He didn't get a reply because the dude was chatting up Nathan, not Sarah.🙃 000
Paul Quelle-horreur 👻🎃👻🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 12/10/2025That use of “discern” annoys me more than it should. 1141
Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Burning a rain forest to come up with the transcendental poetry of "Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you" 12255
Hazel @hazelazureus.bsky.social · 12/10/2025this is why it's good, actually, that the robot is also encouraging these same dudes to eventually take a short drop with a sudden stop on no one else's dime let the male loneliness epidemic sort itself out the way any other epidemic does social quarantine and closed caskets 000
Brains Across the Sea of Dead (spooky) @jnotj.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Well it worked on me, I'm horny as hell for this guy 000
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 12/10/2025It’s so hard to understand why she wouldn’t want a second meet-up with someone who needed help to say ‘It was lovely to meet you.’ 0120
stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 12/10/2025thanks for sharing the laughter 000
Old Man Boogie @hailboogie.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Man, Rich is having a rough time out there as a full blown sociopath. 020
🦇bat-ilda jay @wavesounds.bsky.social · 12/10/2025i wonder if she asked chatgpt if he was worth it 030
ChrisCole @cmcole.bsky.social · 12/10/2025If you need AI to write “it was lovely to meet you” then she probably didn’t respond because you are dumb as rocks. 0100
Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I love how people use a technology literally designed to produce the most average response when trying to stand out. 000
᳄᳆᳇᳅ @n3cropants.bsky.social · 12/10/2025"tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one" he didn't got one... insofar as chatgpt's advice was anything, the point was to be able to remember "we both liked superman" or "we both like cats" or "she made a funny joke" but he couldn't even clear that bar 2140
Hannah Spanner @hellopalendrome.bsky.social · 14/10/2025If you're not going to say something as generic as that the following day, it shouldn't be said at all! What a tool. 000
loctastic @loctastic.bsky.social · 12/10/2025if you’re 32 and using chatgpt for lines like that, Sadly, your bloodline will not be continuing 1301
Olivia Newton-Jim @johnberryman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Humanity (Shakespeare) once created this: True love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never dead, never cold, From itself never turning. 030
Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I haven't had a first date in 19 years and I can come up with better dating advice than ChatGPT. Waiting three days to say "it was lovely to meet you"? Nah. Saturday text, "I had such a great time last night. I'd love to get to know you better. Would you be interested in another date next weekend?" 150
Old Hobbit🐸 @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Monday midmorning. That model was not trained on dating. He should have sent a hundred roses on Sunday by courier, accompanied by a chanteur or chanteuse, and a sky writing aircraft over her house. Better to have loved and lost etc, but at least more spectacularly. 2190
Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The thing I keep thinking when I see this is "does this man have no friends with whom he can workshop his texts?" 000
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I mean “nice to meet you” with no other info is a brush off not meant to get a response! 080
Only the Tony @acripedes.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Problem is he forgot to remove the square brackets. 1120
Ant Brown @brownest-ant.bsky.social · 12/10/2025So pleased to see that the Darwin Awards continues to come up with new categories. 0120
Eighth Day Arts @eighthdayarts.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This makes me sad. And don't they know it's all scraped info? Who knows where this "advice" came from. 030
Wolfgang @wolfgaanger.bsky.social · 13/10/2025If I, a socially inept man can meet the girl of his dreams AND marry her without AI, so can anyone. Actually, not using AI may have been a key factor to that end. 041
アメリカ大失敗 (America’s#1Failure)🫡🖕 @shamr0cker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025These people need to realize it’s a calculator. It can help you do work but can’t think for you and be your devil advocate 110
BigFarts420 @bigfarts420.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Popping out from under the sheets to ask chatgpt where the clitoris is 130
lakeofdanae.bsky.social @lakeofdanae.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Eventually she's going to notice you ducking into the other room to have ChatGPT tell you what you think when she's talking about her fight with her friend or her dream of starting a business selling dog bow ties or how she looks in that outfit, bro. 020
Super Jim @superjim.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Ahh Ai - it's only use is stupid memes when you are too lazy to get on Photoshop. The word 'lazy' doing a lot of work there. Unlike people who use ChatGPT - no work was done that day (or 3 in this goon's case). 010
Psionic Erudite @psionicerudite.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Boy meets girl. Boy used LLM to flirt. Girl uses LLM to respond. Boy and girl exchange links to LLMs. LLMs automate flirting, dating, marriage. LLMs have a happy life together. Boy and girl die alone. 010
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4)
