This Regular Guy Tested This New "AI Method" On His Dating Profile. The Results Surprised Him...

Eric Tan is sitting across from me at a coffee shop in San Francisco's Mission District, and he's showing me something on his phone that seems impossible.

"Look at this," he says, scrolling through his matches. "This is just from yesterday."

21 new matches. In one day.

Six months ago, right after his breakup, Eric was getting maybe one to two matches per month. And most of those never responded. His ex had already moved on. He felt stuck.

"I honestly thought I was just... broken," he tells me. "Like maybe I was one of those guys who's just destined to be alone."

Then he discovered something that sounded completely ridiculous but changed everything for his love life.

See, Eric's 29, works as a software engineer, and by all accounts, he's a perfectly normal guy. Not a male model, but not unattractive either. Just regular.

Being on online apps made him feel like he wasn't enough.

"Man, for years I was going absolutely nowhere" He shakes his head. "I'd swipe for hours. Get one match. She wouldn't respond. Repeat."

The worst part? Everyone around him seemed to be doing fine.

His coworkers would casually mention their weekend dates. His younger brother got engaged. His married friends slowly stopped inviting him out because, well, he was always the odd man out.

"You start wondering if there's something fundamentally wrong with you," Eric says quietly. "Like, why is this working for literally everyone else?"

He Almost Gave Up And Accepted He'd Be Single Forever...

At first, Eric didn't just sit around feeling sorry for himself. He tried to fix it.

He hired a professional photographer for a three-hour session at multiple locations around the city.

"The photos looked great," Eric says. "Very professional. Very... LinkedIn."

But his match rate didn't budge.

Then came the premium subscriptions. "I probably spent $200 on all that garbage. All it did was show my bad photos to more people."

He joined a gym. Bought new clothes. Got a better haircut. Worked out for six months, thinking maybe he just needed to look better in photos.

"I'd take new pictures and they'd still look awkward as hell."

By the time he tallied it up, Eric had spent over $1,100 trying to fix his love life. And he was still getting one or two matches per month.

"I actually deleted all the apps at one point," he admits. "I was like, screw this, I'm done."

One Friday Night Turned His Life Around...

It's a Friday night and Eric can't sleep.

So he's scrolling through reels at 2 AM, because what else are you doing when you're lonely and can't sleep?

That's when he sees an ad about this new AI tool to create dating photos.

"My first thought was 'yeah, that's catfishing,'" Eric laughs. "Like obviously that's going to look fake as hell."

But he clicked anyway.

The platform is called Aragon AI.

The concept seemed simple enough: you just upload a few regular selfies, their AI learns exactly what you look like, and then generates photorealistic-quality photos of you in different settings.

Eric then uploaded 4 selfies from his phone. Nothing fancy, just regular photos from different angles. Some smiling, some not. Different lighting.

In under two minutes, he generated over 40 new photos.

Him at a rooftop bar during golden hour. On a hiking trail with perfect natural lighting. At a nice restaurant. Coffee shop. Beach. Different outfits, different settings, all looking incredibly photorealistic.

But here's what really got him: "They actually looked like me. Not some idealized version or a completely different person. Just me on a really good day."

He picks his six favorites, deletes all his old Tinder photos, and uploads the AI ones.

He then goes to sleep.

Less than 48 hours later...

Eric wakes up Sunday morning to 23 notifications on his phone.

Twenty-three new matches.

"I genuinely thought the app was glitching," he says. "My previous record was maybe two or three matches in a day. Now I had 23 overnight."

But it doesn't stop there.

By Monday evening, he's at 31 matches. By Tuesday, 47. By the end of the week, he's completely lost count.

His final tally? Over 100 matches in seven days.

"And these weren't bots," he emphasizes. "Real women. Attractive women, I was actually interested in talking to."

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What About The "Catfishing" Concern?

Of course, Eric had one massive concern: "What if I show up and they're like, 'Wait, you don't look like your photos'?"

It's a valid fear. The photos looked really good, better than anything he'd ever had.

"I was nervous as hell for that first date," Eric admits.

Tuesday night. Coffee with a woman named Sarah.

He walks in, stomach in knots, preparing himself for the disappointment on her face.

Sarah smiles. Waves him over. Gives him a hug.

"It's nice to finally meet you" she says.

They end up talking for two hours. She asks him out for a second date before they even leave the coffee shop.

The same thing happened on dates two, three, and four.

Nobody felt catfished. Nobody seemed disappointed. Several women actually complimented his photos.

"That's when it really hit me," Eric says.

"The photos look like me because they ARE me," Eric explains. "I mean, I like traveling. I go out for dinner sometimes. I hang out at rooftop bars with friends. That's my actual life. I just don't have a professional photographer documenting it. The AI is basically creating the photos I would have if someone good with a camera was capturing my normal weekends, same activities, same me, just way better quality than a bathroom selfie."

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Three Months Later: From Desperation to Choice

When I meet Eric for this interview three months later, his dating life looks completely different.

"For the first few weeks, I was going on multiple dates," he tells me. "Like, I had three different women I was seeing. It was surreal after spending years getting nowhere."

He shakes his head. "I finally understood what it felt like to have options. To not jump at whoever happened to match with me."

But about a month in, he matched with someone on Hinge.

Her name's Emma. She's a nurse.

"We went for drinks," Eric says. "And it just... clicked. Real chemistry, not just 'thank god someone likes me' but actual connection."

They've been seeing each other for six weeks now. Multiple times a week. Meeting each other's friends.

"I told her about the AI photos after a few dates," he says. "She laughed. 'Wait, those were AI? They look exactly like you. I just thought you had a friend who was good with a camera.'"

Then she shrugged and went back to her dinner. Didn't care at all.

"I'm actually thinking about making it official" Eric says. "I'm probably deleting the apps. Which is insane considering where I was six months ago."

The difference? He's not settling out of desperation. He's choosing Emma because he genuinely wants to, not because she's his only option.

"That's the real change," Eric says. "For the first time, I get to actually choose who I date. And I'm choosing her."

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Most Men Are Attractive Enough. They Just Need Better Photos.

I called up Dr. Jessica Chen, a behavioral psychologist who studies online dating, to make sure Eric's results weren't just a fluke.

"Women spend around 0.4 seconds looking at your profile before they swipe," she tells me. "In that moment, they're only looking at photos. Your bio doesn't matter. Your job doesn't matter. Nothing matters if the photos don't grab attention immediately."

And most guys' photos are just bad. Poor lighting, awkward angles, low-quality phone cameras.

"It's not that they're unattractive," Dr. Chen says. "They're just presenting themselves terribly."

Professional photographers help, but even they have limitations. They create beautiful photos that don't necessarily work on online apps. They don't understand the rapid-swipe environment.

That's where AI has an advantage.

Tools like Aragon AI are trained on photos that actually perform well on those apps. They know exactly what lighting and composition get swipes.

"The AI isn't changing how someone looks," Dr. Chen explains. "It's optimizing presentation, the same thing makeup, filters, and ring lights do for women. It's just leveling the playing field."

The Ethics Question

I bring up the obvious concern: isn't this kind of... deceptive?

Eric had the same worry initially. "It felt weird. Like I was being dishonest somehow."

But then he started thinking about it differently.

"I'm not putting myself in front of a private jet or pretending I'm into rock climbing when I've never touched a rope," Eric explains. "The AI is showing me doing things I actually do, traveling, cooking, going out with friends, Those are real parts of my life."

He pauses. "If you're into chess, it'll show you playing chess. Into fishing? You'll get photos of fishing. It's not changing who you are, it's just showcasing what you actually do in a way that doesn't look like a grainy bathroom selfie."

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I Tried It Myself

Out of curiosity, and because I'm always skeptical of things that sound too good to be true, I decided to test Aragon AI myself.

The process is straightforward. You upload 4-5 selfies from your phone. Different angles, different expressions, some with better lighting than others. Takes maybe five minutes.

Then the AI analyzes your facial features, bone structure, skin tone, the whole deal.

When it's done, you get 40 to 50 photorealistic images of you in various realistic settings with optimized lighting and composition.

The photos I got back looked... well, they looked exactly like me. Just photographed by someone who actually knows what they're doing. No weird AI artifacts or uncanny valley stuff. Just clean, photorealistic-quality images.

I can see why this works.

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More Men Are Now Using AI To Showcase Their True Selves

Since talking to Eric, I've interviewed six other guys who've used Aragon AI for their dating photos. The pattern is remarkably consistent.

Match rates increased by 300% to 500% on average. Time to first date dropped from months to one or two weeks. Every single one reported that their dates confirmed they looked like their photos.

And all of it costs way less than hiring a professional photographer.

I went from two matches per week to 20 or 40. I've been on 5 dates in the past two months. I'm seeing someone now. This actually changed my life.

— Marcus, 31, Chicago

My girlfriend didn't even realize the photos were AI until I told her. She said they look exactly like me, and that's why she swiped right. Best thing I've ever done in 2025.

— David, 29, Austin

I spent $600 on a professional photographer last year. Got nothing. Spent a few bucks on this and got 13 new matches in one day.

— Ryan, 45, Boston

It's Not Just About Photos, It's About Restoring Men's Inner Confidence

Here's what strikes me about Eric's story: it's not really about AI or technology or even dating apps.

It's about how something incredibly simple: bad photos, can make men feel fundamentally broken.

For three years, he thought something was fundamentally wrong with him. That he was the problem.

He spent over a thousand dollars trying to fix it. New clothes. Gym membership. Professional photographer. Coaches. Premium subscriptions.

None of it worked because none of it addressed the actual problem.

His presentation just sucked.

"I spent most of my life feeling lonely, feeling rejected, missing out. All because of bad photos."

If you'd told him six months ago he'd be getting matches daily, seeing women he really likes, feeling confident again? He wouldn't have believed you.

But here we are.

All it took was a few minutes to attract the right women in his life.

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