{"id":187464,"date":"2026-02-13T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:45:19","slug":"artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence aims to bring real connections to college campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailynexus.com\/2026-02-13\/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses\/\">Artificial intelligence aims to bring real connections to college campuses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailynexus.com\/2026-02-13\/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses\/\">https:\/\/dailynexus.com\/2026-02-13\/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 15:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"dailynexus.com\">dailynexus.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promotional fliers around campus are humorously scandalous, misleading students about the content until they discover they are for a dating app called Ditto.<\/li>\n<li>Ditto, an AI-based dating app launched in early 2025, was created by two UC Berkeley dropouts, Allen Wang and Eric Liu.<\/li>\n<li>The app targets college students and requires registration using a university or college email address. <\/li>\n<li>It promotes a unique dating experience by using an AI chatbot over iMessage to match users based on their preferences and emotions rather than appearance.<\/li>\n<li>User Leili Shirvani likes Ditto&#8217;s approach over apps like Tinder and Hinge due to its more personal and less transactional interaction method.<\/li>\n<li>The app fosters matches without a public profile, sending date plans directly to users\u2019 phones, aiming to preserve privacy and create a &#8220;low stakes&#8221; dating experience.<\/li>\n<li>Shirvani appreciates the casual atmosphere of the app, citing its iMessage integration and less judgmental perspective towards potential matches.<\/li>\n<li>The app is currently gaining popularity on college campuses across California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence aims to bring real connections to college campuses https:\/\/dailynexus.com\/2026-02-13\/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-13 15:11:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailynexus.com\/2026-02-13\/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-bring-real-connections-to-college-campuses\/ditto-1-1\/","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-187464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187466,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187464\/revisions\/187466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}