People are increasing "chatfishing," using AI apps to generate texts to their romantic interests.

Sometimes they'll slip up during chatfishing and post their AI prompts in the chat with the other person.

This may represent a modern form of a Freudian slip, revealing an unconscious impulse to end the relationship.

As more and more people are using AI apps daily, reports of an embarrassing new phenomenon pop up all over social media: Accidentally texting other people prompts that were meant to go to an AI app.

Let me explain: For example, when chatting with someone they met on an online dating platform, some people do not actually write their text messages themselves but resort to "chatfishing." Chatfishing is the use of AI apps such as ChatGPT to write text messages to a dating partner (Béchard, 2025).

Thus, they first prompt something like: “Please write a funny and heartfelt message to a dating partner, complimenting them on their appearance and asking them how they........

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