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If you’re tired of being rejected by people who are ‘not right for you’, a new online tool may finally get you the right match.
Hot Chat 3000 is a bizarre online chat room that uses AI to score your looks and connect you with someone of a similar “hotness” rating.
The chat room is the creation of MSCHF, an American art collective based in New York that counts Wordle creator Josh Wardle on its staff.
According to MSCHF, attractiveness ratings are predicted by a large machine learning model trained by OpenAI, the company responsible for ChatGPT.
It follows the new online game that lets you guess whether you’re talking to an AI bot or a fellow human being.
Hot Chat 3000 rates a person’s attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10 based on the photo submitted – so the better the photo, the more likely you are to get a ‘hot’ match
MSCHF announced Hot Chat 3000 – the 91st release – in the form of a fake news post on its Instagram page.
“Hot Chat 300 uses advanced AI to judge someone’s hotness and randomly match someone equally hot — or not — to chat with,” the reporter says in the video.
When you land on the Hot Chat 3000 pageyou need to click ‘Chat Now’ and then take or upload a picture of yourself.
The AI rates attractiveness on a scale of one to ten based on their submitted photo. So the better your photo, the more likely you are to get a good rating.
Once your attractiveness is ranked, it will match you with someone in the same number group, and they can be male or female.
For example, MailOnline was ranked as a 5.6 and was matched with a man who was ranked as 5.1.
After a few tries, MailOnline noticed that all other chat partners were male, and many disconnected as soon as they saw they weren’t paired with a female.
A fellow male participant told MailOnline that putting on sunglasses “raises your rating to an eight,” though it’s unclear if this actually works.
As always, users should be careful about giving out personal information to anyone over the Internet, especially things like home address or bank details.
Users would be wise to give a chat partner a social media handle at most if they want to take it further.
Jake Moore, security specialist at ESET, said it’s “important to be careful what data you disclose” on sites like this.
When you land on the Hot Chat 3000 page, you need to click “Chat Now” and then take or upload a photo of yourself
Rearrange my hotness? MailOnline was ranked a 5.6 and was matched with a man who was ranked a 5.1
“The website will also collect images of faces in a database and it should emphasize that anyone can upload any photo, including photos of others,” he told MailOnline.
Users may also want to check out the privacy policy of the toolstating ‘we may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us’.
According to MSCHF, the model used to create Hot Chat 3000, called CLIP, was trained with millions of text-image pairs — photos of people with a caption describing the photo (e.g., “pretty,” “ugly”).
This allowed CLIP to take a new photo of someone and give them an attractiveness rating, although it’s not always accurate.
“Our job was to find a model and channel his inner critic into all the selfies we’d throw at it,” says MSCHF.
“It’s a snapshot of what a handy collection of publicly available models and datasets defines human hotness.”
MSCHF has built a reputation on the New York art scene for its quirky and downright strange design projects.
Since 2019, it has released a series of “drops” – various projects or products that combine art, technology, humor and more.
One of the more recent drops was a single giant Fruit Loop packaged in a specially designed cereal box that cost $19.99.
Another called Ketchup or Make-up costs £25 and sends buyers six sachets containing either tomato ketchup or red lip gloss.
MSCHF has released the giant Fruit Loop packaged in a specially designed cereal box that costs $19.99
For its most recent drops, MSCHF has capitalized on the public’s obsession with chatbots, sparked by the release of ChatGPT in November.
Both ChatGPT and Bard, which is made by Google, are built using large language models (LLMs) – deep learning algorithms that can recognize and generate text based on knowledge gained from huge data sets.
Another company based in Tel Aviv has already created a game called Human or not?, which tests your ability to distinguish between man and machine against the clock.
It gives you two minutes to talk to someone and at the end guess if it’s a fellow human being or an AI.
“Human or not?” was inspired by the Turing test, devised by legendary British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950.
A computer passes the so-called test when someone cannot properly tell the difference between a human reaction and an AI reaction.