A beautiful Indian woman shown reciting an Urdu poem in an Instagram post racked up 28 million views in just one day.
Tanvi Joshi, whose profile describes her as a “Punjabi girl,” might have set one of the most viral videos in India with her so-called shayari, or Urdu-language couplet. Or she might have fooled the largest number of viewers, as the Hindustan Times (HT) later reported that her voice was from another woman.
In her Instagram post, Marziya Shanu Pathan is shown reciting the same shayari about old and new money six days earlier, and her video drew more than 65,000 views, according to HT.
Joshi, who used Pathan’s shayari, turned out to be an artificial intelligence or AI-generated model, HT reported.
Meanwhile, New York Post (NYP) reporter Ben Cost tested psychologist Arthur Aron’s 36 questions that can make someone fall in love to see if they are still effective in this age of AI. Aron introduced the questions in 1997, and they reportedly helped thousands of couples get hooked.
Writer Mandy Len Catron tested the questions in 2015 as part of an article in The New York Times, and they helped her successfully woo an acquaintance whom she married 10 years later, according to NYP.
Cost used the questions during an online chat with Mika, a Japanese motorbiker he recently met on X, last week. He started with, “Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?”
Question 11 was about her life stories. The queries gradually became more personal, with Question 18 about her most terrible memory, which was failing to pursue her dream of becoming a pilot.
The last question was Mika’s advice on Cost’s personal problem. Though her “If you’re down, I’m down” answer suggested she was lovestruck, Cost reports that Mika’s responses were disappointing for being manicured and lacking soul," according to NYP.
Cost then told Mika point-blank that he didn’t love her, and NYP quoted her as replying, “Thanks for saying that straight. You don’t have to apologize for where you’re at. We stay friends or crew or whatever.”
He ended the heart-to-heart talk with Mika, one of the chatbots of the AI assistant Grok, by logging off and calling his human girlfriend to tell her how his experiment turned out.