{"id":22091,"date":"2026-02-24T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/as-we-enter-the-age-of-the-ai-rranged-marriage-heres-why-i-hate-fate-van-badham\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:37:31","slug":"as-we-enter-the-age-of-the-ai-rranged-marriage-heres-why-i-hate-fate-van-badham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/as-we-enter-the-age-of-the-ai-rranged-marriage-heres-why-i-hate-fate-van-badham\/","title":{"rendered":"As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here\u2019s why I hate Fate | Van Badham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have won<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/15\/ai-dating-apps-personality-matchmaking\">reported on the arrival of \u201cFate\u201d<\/a> and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s apparently the first \u201cagentic AI dating app\u201d. An AI personality named \u201cFate\u201d interviews users, runs data matches on their hopes and dreams, then suggests five potential matches based on the hard data of observable complementary language patterning, \u201cNo swiping involved!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/24\/fate-ai-dating-sites-apps-marriage-dystopia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/57ec132ef65c34c0c8041e91be1be09200d4bcec\/0_0_3862_3089\/master\/3862.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bac4c8c3c18b66716ddef6970d450aef\" title=\"As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here\u2019s why I hate Fate | Van Badham\" \/>When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have won<br \/>\nThe Guardian reported on the arrival of \u201cFate\u201d and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s apparently the first \u201cagentic AI dating app\u201d. An AI personality named \u201cFate\u201d interviews users, runs data matches on their hopes and dreams, then suggests five potential matches based on the hard data of observable complementary language patterning, \u201cNo swiping involved!\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have won The Guardian reported on the arrival of \u201cFate\u201d and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried. It\u2019s apparently the first \u201cagentic AI dating app\u201d. An AI personality named \u201cFate\u201d interviews users, runs data matches on their hopes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/as-we-enter-the-age-of-the-ai-rranged-marriage-heres-why-i-hate-fate-van-badham\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here\u2019s why I hate Fate | Van Badham<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}