Earlier this summer, Richard Wilson sent a long message to a woman he met on a dating app.

When she replied, something felt off.

You know, I ended up sending them like what was essentially like a letter's worth of info in a text message,

just because I don't get the text all day.

And I got like more than a letter in return.

And that, for me, was a little bit interesting because not everything that I said

needed to be addressed.

So my alarm bells started going off.

Richard is 31.

He lives in San Diego, and he's been using dating apps for a couple of months.

So this kind of energy matching was not what he was used to.

And then this woman brought up a minor thing he had said in passing two weeks before,

about something he had eaten at brunch.

Of all the things for someone to remember about you,

like it just really feels like this person is hearing and listening

to every single thing that I'm saying.

And then the questions that they were asking

were definitely felt like something that I would have seen on ChatGBT.

If at ChatGBTbt was trying to entertain me.

Richard met up with her, and she was a real person, okay?

She was not an AI bot.

But he suspects the woman was using artificial intelligence

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