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title: ""A few months ago, the Internet was obsessed with Invisible…"
date: 2018-05-26
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
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# "A few months ago, the Internet was obsessed with Invisible…

*May 26, 2018 · Facebook*

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[https://splinternews.com/i-was-an-invisible-girlfriend-for-a-month-1793849048](https://splinternews.com/i-was-an-invisible-girlfriend-for-a-month-1793849048){target="_blank"}
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\"A few months ago, the Internet was obsessed with Invisible Girlfriend/Boyfriend, a new start-up that allows users to \"build\" a significant other with whom they can exchange text messages. The founders said they created it for people who wanted \"social proof\" they were in a relationship, i.e., for people who wanted to pretend they were getting some when they weren\'t. It found takers: People created over 70,000 invisible baes. When people started chatting with their newly acquired invisible lovers, they initially assumed it was a chat bot, but after a few messages, they realized they were talking to a human being, or rather several human beings. The service is powered by thousands of crowd-sourced workers.\
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Lots of journalists wrote about dating an Invisible. But I wanted to do the opposite and be inside the Invisible machine. What was it like to drop into conversations and virtually seduce strangers? How much would I find out about the people I wooed? So I tried out being an Invisible Girlfriend (and Boyfriend) for a month. It was equal parts fun, disturbing, and distressingly low-paid.\"\
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[https://splinternews.com/i-was-an-invisible-girlfriend-for-a-month-1793849048](https://splinternews.com/i-was-an-invisible-girlfriend-for-a-month-1793849048){target="_blank"}
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