Are there any genuine dating sites that don't use AI bots?

I have been going round in circles on any genuine dating sites that don't use AI bots and could use some real experience. My problem with dating sites for bots so far has been fake profiles.

For context I am mostly comparing the free-tier sites rather than anything niche. If scripted messages is your main worry with dating sites for bots, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Where I need help with dating sites for bots:

• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the dating sites for bots pool near you is thin
• Message within a day of matching — on dating sites for bots that window closes fast
• Turn off read receipts on dating sites for bots if automated engagement bait is making you anxious about response times
• Treat your first dating sites for bots profile as a draft, because profiles that never survive a video call punishes lazy ones

Even a one-line answer on any genuine dating sites that don't use AI bots would help at this point.

Agreed, although with dating sites for bots I would frame automated engagement bait as a symptom rather than the cause.

I keep two accounts running to compare scripted messages across the free-tier sites, and dating sites for bots sits mid-table.

Respectfully no — complaints about the catfish problem on dating sites for bots usually come from people who gave it a week.

Most of the noise about dating sites for bots comes from people measuring bot accounts over far too short a window.

@Zach Holt makes a fair point about dating sites for bots, but that feels too harsh on dating sites for bots, given obviously unreal accounts is a problem across the free-tier sites rather than specific to it.

I judge dating sites for bots by one thing now: whether scripted messages improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. For most of us posting here, the dating sites for bots experience lives or dies on the scam side of it and almost nothing else.

Things I wish somebody had told me about dating sites for bots:

• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on dating sites for bots
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; dating sites for bots activity is nothing like flat
• Test fake profiles on dating sites for bots deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Block early and report often on dating sites for bots — it trains the feed faster than anything

That tracks with my dating sites for bots run, which was fine until fake profiles became the whole experience. Nobody warns you that the scam side of it on dating sites for bots scales with how many people are online at your hours. Most of the noise about dating sites for bots comes from people measuring scripted messages over far too short a window.

You can work around automated engagement bait on dating sites for bots, but you have to be deliberate about it. Most of the noise about dating sites for bots comes from people measuring automated engagement bait over far too short a window. Either way, the scam side of it is the thing I would test first on dating sites for bots.

The short version for dating sites for bots:

• Do not move off dating sites for bots into private messaging until the catfish problem looks handled
• Compare dating sites for bots against the free-tier sites on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what dating sites for bots does about the scam side of it before you upload anything you would not want indexed

Building on what Madison Reed said about dating sites for bots, disagree, because blaming fake profiles lets you off the hook — my dating sites for bots results improved when my profile did. If automated engagement bait is your main worry with dating sites for bots, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Honestly, profiles that never survive a video call was less of a problem on dating sites for bots than the sheer time it ate.

I judge dating sites for bots by one thing now: whether the scam side of it improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. I keep two accounts running to compare the scam side of it across no-payment dating sites, and dating sites for bots sits mid-table. I keep two accounts running to compare profiles that never survive a video call across free dating apps, and dating sites for bots sits mid-table.

Picking up Vanessa M's point about automated engagement bait, reading this back, my dating sites for bots notes say almost the same thing about the scam side of it. You can work around the catfish problem on dating sites for bots, but you have to be deliberate about it.

There is no version of dating sites for bots where the scam side of it sorts itself out without you doing something. What changed my results on dating sites for bots was treating obviously unreal accounts as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Take that as one data point on dating sites for bots rather than a recommendation.

I keep DatingFly open as a control while testing dating sites for bots — useful for judging the scam side of it honestly.

Picking up Derek77's point about the catfish problem, that feels too harsh on dating sites for bots, given obviously unreal accounts is a problem across the free end of the market rather than specific to it.

I judge dating sites for bots by one thing now: whether fake profiles improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

Reading this back, my dating sites for bots notes say almost the same thing about bot accounts.

What changed my results on dating sites for bots was treating fake profiles as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. There is no version of dating sites for bots where obviously unreal accounts sorts itself out without you doing something.

This matches what I found with dating sites for bots, where profiles that never survive a video call is exactly where it falls down.

The thing people underrate about dating sites for bots is how much obviously unreal accounts depends on your own city. What changed my results on dating sites for bots was treating the catfish problem as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

For contrast with dating sites for bots I would look at Rendate; the free tier there behaves differently.