Chatfished 

Using ChatGPT/AI to write something and then try to pass it off as your own

This guy wrote me a poem and totally ChatFished me!

Chatfished by BWhipp March 19, 2023

Chatfished 

To go on a date (especially one arranged online) and realize that the person’s wit, emotional depth, or conversational flair was entirely generated by ChatGPT or another AI — not their real personality.
Unlike being catfished, which is about misleading appearance, being chatfished is about the dialogue and persona being AI-generated.

“He seemed so insightful and poetically funny over text… in person, he was totally bland. I got chatfished.”
“I thought I was dating an empath—ended up being a chatfishing victim.”

Chatfished by anonymous June 11, 2025

Chatfished

After being with someone who had recently asked chat to edit their face slightly and what cosmetic surgery would she need to recreate the look in real life, it made her look a completely different nationality and added a different nose and I said she’d been chatfished.

When someone use’s chatgpt to recreate an image of themselves and ask to change their features OR it does its own thing and makes you into a complete stranger then they have been chatfished.

Chatfished by Hayzydayz May 20, 2026

Catfisher 

an individual (real or fake) who uses the Internet, and in particular, online dating websites to lure people into a scam romance. The general goal of a catfisher is financial gain by developing an online relationship with another person and ultimately asking for money. Besides financial gain, catfishers are sometimes people who prey on others and gain pleasure from online communications and manipulation. You also might hear the terms catfish or catfishing. Catfishing targets both men and women.

Shawn Suleiman is a catfisher.

Catfisher by exposingcatfishers May 15, 2018

catfisher 

A catfisher is the name coined to a bottom dwelling human, who spends a great deal of time on the net in various locations, luring people into a falsely based romance. A catfisher uses fake pictures and bogus information. Often has low self esteem and simply is not happy enough with their image to present it to people that they deem out of their league, and turns to faking other people instead. Other reasons for fraudulently representing people include doing it to boosting one's self esteem and playing people they would otherwise not even get to speak to. In short a catfisher is someone who performs the act of catfishing.

Guy 1: Dude, rumor has it that Noah has been going around faking Trevor online.

Guy 2. No way man, that's fucked up! Once Trevor gets word he's gonna kick the snot out of that bass turd catfisher.

catfisher by catfishery March 25, 2013

catfished by the cloud bots 

Several cloud bots, often from through the interaction of several different Tech subcontracting organizations or search engine optimization, gives an illusion of an active meet-up group in a locale.

"I went to the meetups, yet I was catfished by the cloud bots."

catfished by the cloud bots by AnotherByteOfSeattle March 12, 2023

Hatfished

Hatfishing is a practice where a man purposely deceives a potential romantic partner by wearing a hat on every date to hide his rapidly receding hairline.

"She went on dozens of dates with Tom before it occurred to her that she had never seen him without his Ducati hat on. Her friends were right - she was being hatfished."

Hatfished by Tzensant June 12, 2020