Characteristics of Users Seeking Romantic Relationships on AI-Powered Dating Platforms and With AI Companions
- Title
- Characteristics of Users Seeking Romantic Relationships on AI-Powered Dating Platforms and With AI Companions
- Creator
- Agarwal, Kinjal; Balakumar, Nithya Sree; Ragul, Lalitha
- Description
- AI now underpins nearly every major dating platform, influencing how people discover partners, express themselves, and form romantic bonds. This chapter explains why studying AI in romance has become essential, outlining how algorithmic matching, behavioural design, and personalisation shape digital relationships. It identifies key demographic groups, personality traits, and attachment styles that are drawn to AI-enhanced dating contexts, and examines their motivations, attitudes, and self-presentation patterns across various platforms. The chapter also explores the rise of artificial intimacy, showing how AI companions provide emotional safety, stability, and reinforcement that encourage ongoing engagement. Using psychological approaches, it discusses how users perceive AI as a romantic or supportive figure and how these perceptions interact with individual needs. Ultimately, the chapter highlights how user characteristics and AI design together drive the emergence of new forms of digital intimacy and their broader psychological and social implications. Copyright 2026, IGI Global Scientific Publishing. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global Scientific Publishing is prohibited. Use of this chapter to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is expressly prohibited. The publisher reserves all rights to license its use for generative AI training and machine learning model development.
- Source
- Romantic Relationships in the Age of AI: Drivers, Challenges, and Outcomes;pp.353-401
- Date
- 01-01-2026
- Publisher
- IGI Global
- Coverage
- Agarwal K., Christ University, Bangalore, India; Balakumar N.S., Christ University, Bangalore, India; Ragul L., Christ University, Bangalore, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
- Relation
- ISBN: 979-833736625-8; 979-833736623-4; 979-833736624-1;
- Format
- online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Agarwal, Kinjal; Balakumar, Nithya Sree; Ragul, Lalitha, “Characteristics of Users Seeking Romantic Relationships on AI-Powered Dating Platforms and With AI Companions,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed June 18, 2026, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/24867.