If you need AI to flirt, should you even be dating?

It seemed like a good day on Hinge when Delhi-based doctor, Anjali Parikh (name changed), matched with a lawyer. His profile was on point. He didn’t open with a cheesy line. His chats were witty and insightful—from self-deprecating jokes to amusing details of his travels. Following regular dating hygiene, Parikh combed his Instagram and LinkedIn pages. Necessary photos and screenshots were shared among her girl gang for a collective vetting. Everything checked out.
This was primed for a meet-cute. At a Delhi café, Parikh walked in to meet the lawyer who, thankfully, looked like his photos. But he could barely string a sentence in English. How could he be the person she had been chatting with on Hinge? She soon realised to her shock that she had been talking to a bot—that the lawyer had been using AI to craft real-time conversations. She fled.