Facebook Dating gets an AI chatbot to help you find love

Hey bot, find me someone who likes grunge pop, open to hiking, and lives in Detroit. Thanks!

By Nadeem Sarwar Published September 22, 2025

AI assistant in Facebook Dating. — Meta

Look, we live in a dystopian future where people are pouring their hearts out to ChatGPT, falling in love with AI companions, and even grappling with “AI partner cheating” fiascos. Meta, one of the world’s biggest AI labs, is now pushing a chatbot that aims to help humans find love among their own species. Phew!

The big picture

Facebook Dating, a corner of the vast social media universe that aims to help users find dates, is getting a new AI assistant. Instead of swiping through dozens of profiles, you can simply tell the AI assistant about your preferences, and it will narrow down such profiles for you.

For example, you can ask it to “find me someone who is in New York City and works in marketing,” and the AI assistant will pull up matching profiles for you. Think of it as AI prompting for tailored matches.

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“It can help you find better matches based on your interests and preferences, giving you refined search and custom match recommendations,” says Meta.

What’s next?

The new Dating Assistant will be available in the Matches tab, and will be accessible to users in the US and Canada. In addition to an AI assistant, Facebook Dating is also getting a new feature called Meet Cute.

Meta says the new tool “takes the indecision out of online dating by automatically matching you with a surprise match based on our personalized matching algorithm.”

The idea is to help users find someone beyond their typical partner preferences. On a side note, the company recently announced that its Meta AI chatbot will stop talking to teens about sensitive topics like suicide. And it seems regulations for AI assistants are also on the horizon.

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Nadeem is the Managing Editor at Digital Trends.

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