machina.mondays // Love at First Algorithm: How AI Is Rewriting Romance

Connection is quicker, but is it still real? Inside the quiet revolution reshaping modern love—one automated swipe at a time.

In this issue, dating apps promised easier connections, but AI is making them more complicated. Our lead story explores the paradox of AI romance: faster connections, but increasingly hollow. Spotlight examines synthetic affection’s emotional risks. Hot Take covers AI-driven deception, from hyperrealistic fake profiles to scams. Plus: AI-generated breakup texts, a slow dating resurgence, and new data showing nearly half of Gen Z now outsource first impressions to AI.

We Thought Dating Apps Would Bring Us Closer. AI Might Be Pulling Us Further Apart.

Hollow Connection or Human Catalyst? AI's Double-Edged Disruption of Modern Romance

The age of AI-enhanced dating isn’t on the horizon; it’s already rewriting first impressions, redefining intimacy, and reframing the search for love. What started as algorithmic matchmaking is rapidly morphing into synthet…