What? I am telling you it is.
and preferentially read things that take less cognitive effort (all else equal, of course)
Sorry, no offense meant, I am just genuinely surprised. But I believe you now, I guess our experiences are just very different in this regard.
It has been ~1 year since this was posted, and photorealistic image generation has now gone mainstream with e.g. ChatGPT introducing it. People can now generate “improved” photos of themselves.
How has this affected dating apps? Could anyone actively using them weigh in on this?
I imagine the equilibrium to be everyone having extremely attractive AI generated photos of themselves. (If the person is attractive to begin with the AI version probably only has some minor tweaks compared to the reference photos, but it they are not so attractive originally the difference could be quite jarring.)
How far are we from that equilibrium right now and how fast are things changing? Does anything other than a race to the bottom with AI photos seem to be happening? (E.g. do people already have an aversion to AI photos in sufficient numbers that they penalize photos that look “too good”?)