Artificial intelligence is making it easier to create convincing fake photos, profiles, and digital identities, posing a new challenge for Australians trying to verify who they’re really talking to online. Addressing this, Australian technology platform CheckMyDate has launched a new AI-assisted dating safety tool designed to help people review publicly available online information and identify potential warning signs before deciding to meet someone in person. With online dating now a common way for people to connect, the rise of AI-generated images, deepfakes, and increasingly sophisticated fake identities is making digital trust more complicated than ever. At the same time, romance scams continue to cause significant financial harm. Australians reported a staggering $28.6 million in losses to romance scams in 2025, highlighting the real-world consequences of deception and misplaced trust in online relationships. CheckMyDate was founded on a simple idea: people should have an easy and affordable way to see what publicly available information exists before deciding to meet someone they’ve connected with online. The platform runs an AI-assisted search of publicly available online information, bringing relevant findings together into a single, easy-to-read report. Depending on what is publicly available, a check may identify social profiles, news and press mentions, professional and business information, publicly indexed dating-profile references, relationship indicators and potential photo matches.
“AI is changing what’s possible online. Fake profiles, images and digital identities can now be more convincing than ever, making it increasingly difficult to know whether someone is genuinely who they claim to be.” A CheckMyDate spokesperson commented “We created CheckMyDate to give people more information before they make the decision to meet someone they’ve connected with online. We don’t make that decision for them — we make it easier to review publicly available information and identify potential warning signs.”
CheckMyDate is not a certified background check and does not guarantee a person’s identity, character, intentions or safety. Instead, it is designed as a faster starting point for the kind of public-web research someone might otherwise conduct themselves. The platform also encourages users to continue following established dating-safety practices, including meeting in public, telling a trusted person about their plans and trusting their own judgement. As AI continues to blur the line between genuine and fabricated online identities, CheckMyDate believes the question facing online daters is becoming increasingly important: “How much do you really know about the person you’re about to meet?”