India, Oct. 8 -- So MasterChef India teased its next season with a new promo. And audiences were readying themselves for interesting kitchen drama and perhaps some tearful breakdowns. And instead of those things, what we did get was AI. That's right: MasterChef India's new AI promo features highly polished, AI-generated faces grinning through perfectly polished aprons that are just too, well, perfect. Here is all you need to know about the new season of Masterchef India and its AI promo.

Viewers were quick to pick up on it. Responses varied from incredulity to indignation. Because while the images are slick, they are also... sterile. As is the case with images generated with artificial intelligence, they are unnatural and completely lack...