New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- A new social media trend is turning people into cartoon versions of themselves - and the internet cannot seem to get enough of it.

Across platforms such as X and Instagram, users are posting AI-generated caricatures created using ChatGPT, often accompanied by captions marvelling at how accurately the images reflect their professions, hobbies and even personality quirks.

The viral prompt behind the trend is deceptively simple: "Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me."

The result? Stylised portraits that don't just exaggerate facial features, but also build elaborate backgrounds. Screens filled with code, graphs or editing software. Books with oddly specific titles. National flags...