Love By Numbers

When Algorithms Implode

The Random word of the day is Calculate

Imagined by the author — created by Dall-E

Sara flicked through her matches; each one stamped with a seemingly perfect score. Promises of compatibility flashed across screen. But under that glossy surface, the dating system was falling apart.

Meet-ups felt more like cold, hard interrogations.

Impersonal. Unfeeling. Detached.

Sara slowly grew disillusioned. The algorithm, designed to calculate true connection, now felt like a straitjacket.

She realized that in this sterile hunt for perfection, the very soul of human connection was crumbling.

In the dating app’s quest for flawless matches, the raw, thrilling unpredictability of love was lost.

Sara closed her computer and picked up her tennis shoes.

Imagined by the author — created in Dall-E

Today’s Drabble Random Word is Calculate — A Drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words. No More. No Less.

This was a response to Nancy Oglesby and her Drabble challenge. You can check it out here:

53 Random Word Drabble Challenge 2/22