# When AI Makes the Shidduch, Who Gets Credit?
**URL:** https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/67738
**Category:** Avodah
**Created:** [November 2, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/67738 "2026-11-02T02:30:13Z")
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### Author:  [@gil\_student](https://discourse.aishdas.org/u/gil_student)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/67738/1 "2026-11-02T02:30:13Z")
by R. Gil Student
Matchmaking is an act of kindness on multiple levels, creating families and relieving individuals and their families of the stress of finding a match. Traditionally, families pay a successful _shadchan_, matchmaker, a fee known as _shadchanus_. What happens when an artificial intelligence app makes the suggestion? Imagine that an AI matchmaking service evaluates thousands of profiles, identifies a compatible couple and recommends that they meet. The couple dates and eventually marries. Is the owner of the app entitled to _shadchanus_, even though he never considered this particular couple and may not even know who they are? Or is no payment required beyond any minimal app fees because no human being actually performed the matchmaking?
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://www.torahmusings.com/2026/11/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/](https://www.torahmusings.com/2026/11/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/)
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### Author:  [@mberger](https://discourse.aishdas.org/u/mberger)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2026, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/67738/2 "2026-11-02T11:39:29Z")
AI and royalties?
And when it’s a _devar Torah_, where _hasagas gevul_ and intellectual property have both been questioned, who controls distribution?
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### Author:  [@gil\_student](https://discourse.aishdas.org/u/gil_student)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2026, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/67738/3 "2026-11-02T11:39:30Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.aishdas.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/67738/4 "2026-11-02T12:21:52Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.aishdas.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/when-ai-makes-the-shidduch-who-gets-credit/67738/5 "2026-11-02T17:50:51Z")