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I ended things with my date after he accidentally texted me this
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A 22-year-old woman posts on Am I Overreacting after what she described as an amazing first date ends with her date accidentally sending her a text meant for a friend. The text rates her appearance using crude slang, gives her an '11 out of 10,' and describes an involuntary physical reaction to their kiss. The panel has an immediate, layered reaction — part amused, part genuinely critical. The real villain of the segment becomes the follow-up: a multi-paragraph ChatGPT-generated apology so formal and repetitive that Shayne likens it to a Jane Austen novel, noting that it adds zero new personal information and simply loops through formal apology language. The panel agrees: the AI apology insulted her intelligence even more than the original text, because it revealed he wasn't even willing to do the emotional labor of a real apology.
A 22-year-old man accidentally sent his Hinge date a text meant for a friend rating her appearance in crude terms and describing a physical reaction to their first kiss. The date went from amazing to over in one notification.
A 22-year-old man accidentally texted his date a message meant for a friend rating her physical appearance and describing a physical reaction to their kiss.
Realizing his mistake, the man sent a multi-paragraph AI-generated apology full of words like 'egregious' and 'profoundly mortified.' The panel agreed: it insulted her intelligence more than the original crude text did.
The man followed up his accidental crude text with a ChatGPT-generated multi-paragraph apology, using words like 'egregious' and 'profoundly mortified,' which the panel identified as AI-written.
A 19-year-old posted about being furious her boyfriend of four months wished her happy birthday 25 minutes after midnight — despite him calling twice, texting throughout the day, and planning a weekend celebration. Reddit was not sympathetic.
