Sorry, SXSW, That Sexy Tinder User’s a Robot Plugging a Robot Movie
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iStock/Thinkstock(AUSTIN, Texas) — You’re single, you’re in town for a pop culture festival — what could be better than finding an attractive woman to spend some time with via Tinder? That’s just what scores of attendees to the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, thought when they “swiped right” over the past few days for Ava, a 25-year-old woman who was also in town for the event.
Tinder users found out that Ava is pretty, attentive, and deep — but they are only just finding out that she’s not real. In fact, she’s a chatbot meant, surreptitiously though appropriately, to plug Ex Machina, a sci-fi thriller that centers on a sexy robot named Ava, whose feminine wiles are tested on a human test subject.
One of those taken by “Ava” was a Tinder user named Brock, who lamented the bot, “toyed with my emotions so hard.” He shared one of his exchanges with “Ava” on AdWeek.com.
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