Woman to end 12-year marriage after ChatGPT predicted husband cheated

During a coffee break with a coworker, a mother-of-two (name withheld) apparently took the AI bot's fortune-telling talents seriously after it informed her that her husband had cheated on her.

The unnamed woman, who has been married to her husband for 12 years, requested that the chatbot analyze the remains of her husband's coffee cup and provide her with a "reading," according to a Greek magazine that Daily Mail cited.

Strange as it may seem, tasseography, also called tasseomancy, is a fortune-telling technique that involves interpreting the dregs at the bottom of a cup.

It is typically carried out by people who identify themselves as fortune tellers, not ChatGPT, and entails deciphering patterns in tea leaves, coffee grinds, or wine sediments to predict the future.

However, as ChatGPT purportedly implied that her husband was having an affair, this woman's choice to test the divine with technology resulted in a stunning breakup in her marriage.

According to Greek City Times, she posted a picture of her husband's coffee cup's bottom, which caused both parties to react in a somewhat surprising way.

The husband, who allegedly discussed his version of events on the Greek morning show To Proino, claimed that his wife had previously allowed herself to be led by the paranormal.

He said on the morning show, "She went to an astrologer a few years ago, and it took her a year to realize that none of it was true."

But it seemed that the reading she got from ChatGPT had an impact on her entirely.

The AI chatbot purportedly informed her that her spouse was considering having an affair with a woman whose name started with the letter E after she entered pictures of her and her husband's coffee cups.

According to reports, ChatGPT took the reading a step further and deduced from the coffee grounds that he was already unfaithful to her and that the "other woman" intended to end their marriage.

"She took it seriously, but I laughed it off as foolishness," the spouse stated on To Proino.

After she asked me to leave and informed our children that we were divorcing, I received a call from a lawyer. I realized then that this was not merely a phase.

According to the journal, he was formally served with divorce papers just three days after he refused to consent to a mutual separation.

According to reports, he is retaliating against his wife's attempts at divorce. His attorney maintains that Chatgpt is "innocent until proven differently" and that his claims lack legal support.

The strange story has received a lot of responses on Reddit, with some people making jokes about AI now stealing a new kind of work.

One individual said, "They are taking out psychic jobs!" to which another punny person responded, "To be fair, they saw this coming."

Despite the tremendous advancements in AI, a third pointed out that the system has flaws and occasionally produces "very foolish" outcomes.

As an example, they stated, "I was using ChatGPT to draw up some quick examples for a statistics course and it insisted that the word 'extraterrestrial' contained 15 letters, four of which were E's."

"It demanded both of these characteristics regardless of how I phrased the inquiry. That is much more perplexing now that I am unable to replicate it.

More seriously, one individual noted that tools like AI chatbots are making it more difficult for vulnerable people to distinguish between fact and fiction.