Bengaluru man creates AI-generated profile of woman on Bumble, gets 2750 likes in just 2 hours

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Something unusual happened in Bengaluru recently  and it’s the kind of story that makes you both laugh and think. A techie, bored and looking for a distraction, started playing with OpenAI’s new GPT-4o image tool. He created a set of hyper-realistic images of a fictional woman. They looked so real, it was almost unsettling.Then came a wickedly clever idea — what if he made a Bumble profile using one of those AI-generated faces? Just to see what would happen.

What happened was beyond anything he expected.

In just two hours, the fake profile blew up. Over 2,750 likes, dozens of SuperSwipes, and a flood of messages rolled in. Strangers sent long, heartfelt compliments. Some offered ice cream dates, concert tickets, and sweet little plans for imaginary evenings. The techie’s phone wouldn’t stop buzzing — every second, a new notification, a new admirer. It was chaos.

“It felt like my phone had a seizure,” he wrote in his post. And beneath the humour, the message was clear: the loneliness people carry in these digital spaces is bigger than it seems. He called it an “apocalypse.”

It took Bumble 12 hours to spot and delete the fake profile. But by then, the story had already caught fire online. People debated everything — loneliness, dating app culture, ethics of technology, and the lopsided world of online attraction.

Some users bluntly pointed out the brutal math of dating apps, calling it an “80-20 game,” where a small number of profiles grab all the attention. Others joked that maybe the only sure way to be popular these days is to not exist at all.

In the end, it wasn’t just a prank. It turned into a mirror — reflecting a strange, restless world where technology and human emotions collide in the most unexpected ways.