Artificial intelligence has moved from offices into private life. People are now deploying AI agents in one of life’s most sensitive areas: dating. Some use them to plan their work, while others use them to end relationships. And one young man used a single script to flood his inbox with two hundred messages from women around the world.
How the script works
Ben Guez creates content and is launching his own startup. A few days ago, he launched an automated script that flooded his Instagram with messages from women. The OpenClaw agent monitors match results at the World Cup. As soon as a team loses, it launches Claude AI, which immediately creates and publishes a short video. In the video, Guez sits on a train, looks out the window, and appears devastated. It also adds a caption saying that if any girl from that country needs emotional support, his inbox is open. Only the country’s name changes. He has made the same post more than a dozen times.
The trick is that these videos do not appear on his public profile. Instagram offers them as trial reels, so none of his followers know about them. Within a few days, Guez racked up more than a million views and two hundred messages. The women also have to take an additional step. Guez states in his profile that he only responds to messages sent through Canary, his language-learning app. Anyone who wants to message him has to download it.
He himself describes the potential as insane. He admits that not everyone will like it, but it works for him. He claims the women are not angry; rather, they are impressed and see it as an original idea. Guez says that as long as you are open about what you are doing, everything is fine. However, the TechCrunch editorial team was unable to verify the reactions of the women he contacted.
Where should you go on a date? An agent will advise you
Jeff Weisbein runs a PR agency and also uses OpenClaw. He meets women from different parts of South Florida and does not know all the local venues himself. So he lets the bot do the research and prepare a document with links explaining why a particular place is suitable for a specific type of date.
He does not hide it either. It backfired on him once when a woman told him outright that she hated AI agents. According to Weisbein, asking artificial intelligence where to go for a drink is similar to looking it up on Google. But he would not let a robot write messages or click through profiles on his behalf. In his view, communication in a relationship is key.
Artificial intelligence will plan the breakup
Once a genuine bond is involved, people back away. Even so, there are some who use artificial intelligence to help end relationships. A programmer who goes by Cailey created an automation in Claude. She enters a few key details about the date, and the tool composes a message along the lines of “I don’t want to see you anymore.” It sends the message itself at a random time so that Cailey does not have to deal with the anxiety of deciding when to send it.
It worked perfectly until she mentioned her trick during a date. The man then asked her whether he was talking to her or to Claude.
When an agent invades your privacy
OpenClaw became a hit this spring, and security experts have been issuing warnings from the start. Giving an agent unlimited access to all your accounts comes with risks.
Lazer Cohen co-founded the competing NanoClaw tool, which emphasizes security. He warns that entrusting relationships to artificial intelligence has its pitfalls. According to him, whenever you give an agent personal data and access to accounts, a human should always be involved in the decision-making. He describes cases in which OpenClaw created dating profiles for people without their knowledge. Or cases in which an agent acting as a dating coach revealed to other groups that someone was using it for that purpose as well.
Cohen himself, however, does not keep artificial intelligence out of his relationship. He and his wife use an assistant named Rosie to manage the schedules of their five children.
