Key Facts:
- Australian technology platform CheckMyDate has launched an AI-assisted dating safety tool to help people review publicly available online information and identify potential warning signs before meeting someone they have connected with online.
- The tool addresses growing concerns around AI-generated fake profiles, deepfakes, and sophisticated digital identities that are making it increasingly difficult to verify whether someone is genuinely who they claim to be.
- Romance scams continue to cause significant financial harm in Australia, with reported losses reaching $28.6 million in 2025.
- The platform conducts an AI-assisted search of publicly available information, compiling findings into a single report that may include social profiles, news mentions, professional information, dating-profile references, and potential photo matches.
- CheckMyDate is not a certified background check and does not guarantee a person’s identity or safety, but is intended as a faster starting point for public-web research, alongside established safety practices such as meeting in public and informing a trusted person of plans.
Melbourne, Australia – July 2026 – 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.
A CheckMyDate spokesperson said:
“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.”
