Gangtok, Dec. 6 -- Just when people thought they could finally spot a real tiger near the capital, Artificial Intelligence once again played prankster-in-chief-and Sikkim fell for it, hook, line, and pixel. An AI-generated image of a Royal Bengal tiger cub recently went viral across social media, sending villagers, officials, and WhatsApp uncles into full wildlife-alert mode. The image was widely shared with claims that a student had photographed a tiger cub near a forest edge close to Gangtok. In no time, local reports described it as a rare real-life wildlife sighting, and panic spread faster than the internet signal. By evening, villagers reportedly stayed indoors, while forest officials rushed to the area in search of a tiger that, it...