Ben Guez has “a group of potential international wives in [his] DM”, thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram test reels.
“I think it’s crazy, like the potential is crazy right now.” gueza content creator and startup founder told TechCrunch. “I’m not sure if everyone will think it’s good, but I mean, it’s working.”
How is it possible that Guez courts so many women? First, use the open source AI agent. open claw to track the results of World Cup matches. After each game, OpenClaw has Claude create and post a nearly identical Instagram.test reel” with the same template. In the video, Guez looks out the window of a train car looking dejected, with the caption: “I can’t believe {COUNTRY} lost… If any {COUNTRY} girls need emotional support… my DMs are open.”
Guez has made the same post, minus the country name, more than a dozen times. But you can’t tell when you look at their profile, since test reels don’t appear on a creator’s public page. Since launching this automation, Guez has gotten over a million views and 200 direct messages in just a few days. That volume is even more impressive considering that Guez says on his profile that he will only respond to DMs sent via Canarytheir AI language learning app, which means these women have to download their app.
Let’s face it: Guez is really taking “working smarter, not harder” to another level. But once these women realize that he doesn’t really care about Tunisian football, won’t they feel cheated?
“They’re not angry, they’re more impressed, like, ‘Oh, you’re thinking outside the box, you’re a genius,’” Guez said. “I think as long as you’re open [about] What you are doing, I think is good.”
TechCrunch couldn’t independently verify these women’s actual reactions, so we’ll have to take Guez’s word for it. But we can tell you that Guez isn’t the only one getting creative with the viral AI assistant. While Guez’s methods are a little more outrageous, other people see OpenClaw as a way to streamline the date-setting process.
Jeff Weisbeinfounder of a technology public relations company, uses OpenClaw to help him discover where to make appointments in different South Florida neighborhoods.
“I’m meeting women who are in various parts of South Florida, so I don’t know all the restaurants and things to do,” Weisbein told TechCrunch. “I have my bot do all the research and create a document with links explaining why it’s an option for any type of date.”
When I tell him about Guez’s OpenClaw plan, he laughs.
“I guess I’m not getting the most out of OpenClaw,” he said. “But definitely in the realm of using OpenClaw to facilitate a task that you would otherwise have to do manually.”
Like Guez, Weisbein makes no secret of the fact that she’s using AI tools to help plan dates (although it backfired when one woman told her, “I hate AI agents”). In some ways, asking OpenClaw where to go for happy hour in Fort Lauderdale isn’t that different from Googling the best bars in the neighborhood, but she says she would put limits on using AI to mediate her real conversations with women.
“I’ve seen people create bots and swipe forms using OpenClaw, and I wouldn’t do that. They say it’s a numbers game, but if that’s what it takes… it seems like a pretty terrible way to do it,” he said. “I feel like you shouldn’t delegate your communication to AI when you’re in a relationship with someone.”
People seem hesitant to let AI get in the way once there’s a real connection, but a tech worker named Cailey said that once she decides to end a flirtation, she doesn’t mind using Claude to break things up.
“I started using Claude and created an automation that creates ‘I no longer wish to see you’ messages based on a few key terms I entered around the date. Then it automatically sent them at random times so I wouldn’t feel the anxiety of when to send them,” he told TechCrunch. “It worked great, until I mentioned it to someone I was on a date with, who I then had to send an automated message to and they asked me if I was talking to Claude or Cailey.”
What’s worse: getting tricked or getting broken by an AI?
OpenClaw shook the tech world with its potential when it went viral this spring, but security advocates have continued to do so. users warned about the dangers of giving an AI assistant unilateral control over all your accounts.
For Lazer Cohen, co-founder of security-focused alternative OpenClaw nanoclawThere are serious privacy implications of outsourcing personal relationships to AI, even if your company advertises appointment planning as a possible use case in X.
“Any time you give an agent access to personal information and accounts, you need approval from a human being,” Cohen told TechCrunch. “We’ve all heard stories of OpenClaw creating dating profiles for people without their knowledge or consent, or of OpenClaw dating coaches telling other groups that they are also being used as dating coaches.”
NanoClaw has found its way into Cohen’s love life, although he uses it in a slightly healthier way than the mass-produced reels that ask heartbroken football fans to slide into his DMs.
“My wife and I personally use our NanoClaw assistant, Rosie, to manage our five children’s schedules,” he said. “But ‘claws’ are widely used to help couples move into the parenting phase.”
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