Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now

Ben Guez has “a bunch of potential worldwide wives in [his] DMs,” due to an automatic script he arrange utilizing OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trial reels.

“I feel it’s loopy, just like the potential is insane proper now,” Guez, a content material creator and startup founder, instructed Trendster. “I’m undecided if everybody’s gonna suppose it’s good, however I imply, it’s working.”

How is Guez wooing so many ladies? First, he makes use of the open supply AI agent OpenClaw to trace World Cup match outcomes. After every recreation, OpenClaw triggers Claude to create and put up an almost an identical Instagram “trial reel” with the identical template. Within the video, Guez stares out a practice automotive window trying dejected, with the caption: “I can’t consider {COUNTRY} misplaced… If any {COUNTRY} women want emotional assist… my DMs are open.”

Guez has made the identical put up, save for the nation identify, greater than a dozen occasions. However you may’t inform whenever you take a look at his profile, since trial reels don’t present up on a creator’s public web page. Since he launched this automation, Guez has gotten over a million views and 200 DMs in a number of days. That quantity is much more spectacular contemplating that Guez says in his profile that he’ll solely reply DMs despatched by way of Canary, his AI language studying app, which implies that these ladies need to obtain his app.

It’s important to hand it to him: Guez is actually taking “work smarter, not more durable” to a different degree. However as soon as these ladies notice he doesn’t really care about Tunisian soccer, wouldn’t they really feel performed?

“They’re not feeling offended, they’re extra impressed, like, ‘Oh, you’re pondering outdoors of the field, you’re a genius,’” Guez mentioned. “I feel so long as you’re open [about] what you’re doing, I feel it’s tremendous.”

Trendster was not capable of independently confirm the precise reactions of those ladies, so we’ll simply need to take Guez’s phrase for it. However we are able to inform you that Guez isn’t the one man getting artistic with the viral AI assistant. Whereas Guez’s strategies are a bit extra outrageous, different folks see OpenClaw as a solution to streamline the method of organising dates.

Jeff Weisbein, founding father of a tech PR agency, makes use of OpenClaw to assist him determine the place to take dates throughout completely different neighborhoods in South Florida.

“I’m assembly ladies who’re in numerous components of South Florida, so I don’t know all the eating places or issues to do,” Weisbein instructed Trendster. “I’ve my bot simply type of do all of the analysis and make a doc with hyperlinks to why it’s a alternative for no matter kind of date it’s.”

Once I fill him in on Guez’s OpenClaw scheme, he bursts out laughing.

“I assume I’m not leveraging OpenClaw to the fullest,” he mentioned. “However positively within the realm of utilizing OpenClaw to facilitate a process that I’d manually need to do in any other case.”

Like Guez, Weisbein doesn’t disguise the truth that he’s utilizing AI instruments to assist plan dates (it backfired, although, when one girl instructed him, “I hate AI brokers”). In a means, asking OpenClaw the place to go for blissful hour in Fort Lauderdale isn’t that completely different from Googling the best neighborhood bars, however Weisbein says he would draw the road at utilizing AI to mediate his precise conversations with ladies.

“I’ve seen folks create bots and methods to swipe utilizing OpenClaw, and I wouldn’t try this. They are saying it’s a numbers recreation, but when that’s what it takes… that looks like a fairly horrible solution to do it,” he mentioned. “I really feel such as you shouldn’t delegate your communication whenever you’re in a relationship with somebody to AI.”

Individuals appear hesitant to let AI meddle as soon as there’s an precise connection, however a tech employee named Cailey mentioned that when she’s determined to finish a flirtation, she doesn’t thoughts utilizing Claude to interrupt issues off.

“I began utilizing Claude and created an automation that crafts ‘I not want to see you’ messages primarily based on a number of key phrases I’d enter concerning the date. It’d then mechanically ship them for me at random occasions in order that I wouldn’t really feel the anxiousness of when to ship,” she instructed Trendster. “It labored rather well, till I discussed it to somebody I used to be on a date with, who I then needed to ship an automatic message to, and he requested if he was speaking to Claude or Cailey.”

What’s worse: getting ghosted, or getting damaged up with by an AI?

OpenClaw rocked the tech world with its potential when it went viral this spring, however safety advocates have repeatedly warned customers concerning the risks of giving an AI assistant unilateral management over all your accounts.

For Lazer Cohen, the co-founder of the security-focused OpenClaw different NanoClaw, there are steep privateness implications of outsourcing private relationships to AI, even when his firm advertises date planning as a possible use case on X.

“Everytime you’re giving an agent entry to private data and accounts, you want human-in-the-loop approval,” Cohen instructed Trendster. “We’ve all heard the tales of OpenClaw creating relationship profiles for folks with out their data or consent, or OpenClaw relationship coaches spilling to different teams that they’re getting used as a relationship coach too.”

NanoClaw has discovered its means into Cohen’s love life, although he makes use of it in a means that’s a bit extra healthful than mass-producing reels that ask heartbroken soccer followers to slip into his DMs.

“My spouse and I personally use our NanoClaw assistant, Rosie, to handle the schedules of our 5 kids,” he mentioned. “However ‘claws’ are extensively used to assist {couples} get to the child-rearing part.”