India, April 15 -- In a bizarre yet revealing incident that unfolded in Bengaluru, artificial intelligence has once again stirred the internet-this time by infiltrating the world of online dating. A city-based techie, driven by boredom, created a fictional woman using an AI image generator, uploaded the image to a dating app, and was stunned by the overwhelming response it received.

The incident was shared by an X (formerly Twitter) user with the handle @infinoz, who described how they used OpenAI's new GPT-4o image generation tool to craft ultra-realistic images of a woman. Impressed by how convincing the pictures were, the user decided to create a fake profile on Bumble using one of the AI-generated images.

"I got bored and decided to...