SciMatch: AI Dating Matchmaker

I’ve tried a lot of dating apps, but scimatch is something else. From the start, it felt like actually “got” me. The matches aren’t just random; they feel real, they really seem to fit my personality and I connected with someone amazing within few weeks. I also really like that with scimatch, I can start chatting with people who are already a good match for me, without the whole waiting-for-a-like thing. And the concept of finding someone who resembles my ‘face mate’ is seriously impressive. If you’re over the usual swiping, give it a shot.

The ai is effectively built to “cold read” people and it got me completely wrong. I went through a few profiles - there were literally 4 in my area because I’m currently in the middle of nowhere. Then I chose to expand my range a bit, immediately was presented with an obvious model, definitely a planted highly attractive profile to inspire people to purchase subscriptions. A lot of dating apps do this and it’s such a manipulative business tactic. There’s an option to have the ai determine how compatible you are. I ran it with the model. Her pictures are of her on private jets, boating in expensive bikinis, has facial work, works out at equinox. The ai said “you are only 41% compatible because she will not understand your idealism and superficial needs, and you will not accept her love of freedom” …this couldn’t be more off base and had me rolling my eyes. Cool idea I guess but people with any depth can’t be judged by an algorithm reading their photos. I can do far better with intuition and observation, ai doesn’t even come close to accurate.

The app tried to describe my personality based on my photo, but it was way, way off. I hit the “not accurate” button and it still proceeded to try to match me based on what it thought was my personality. I didn’t find anyone who had a bio or any information other than a head shot, which is not enough to determine what someone looks like. And of course the matches were useless because they were based on personality traits I don’t have. But you can’t remove anyone from your list of matches so you have to keep looking at the same people you’re not interested in. So I go to delete my account and every single time it give me an error message and tells me to log out and back in, which didn’t help. Then a link pops up to send me an email, but this results in another error message because I’m already logged in. I’m confounded by the positive reviews because the app is garbage from a technical standpoint and doesn’t even work as intended.