Woman divorces husband after ChatGPT reads his coffee grounds and predicts affair

[ad_1] WTF?! You should not belief generative AI to provide you with the appropriate solutions on a regular basis – even the instruments' personal disclaimers warn to test their responses for factual accuracy – and so they're definitely not famend for his or her potential to learn tea leaves. However one lady put a lot religion in ChatGPT's divination abilities that she divorced her husband of 12 years after it interpreted the stays of his espresso mug as indicators of infidelity.

Fairly than utilizing ChatGPT's picture abilities to create Studio Ghibli-style photos, a Greek lady determined to experiment with the development of AI tasseography – a type of divination that interprets shapes left by tea leaves (or typically espresso grounds or wine sediment) after a cup is drunk.

She uploaded a photograph of her husband's Greek espresso grounds and requested the AI to interpret them. The chatbot's interpretation was that the husband was fantasizing about having an affair with a youthful lady whose identify started with E, and that he was destined to start a relationship with this particular person.

The spouse additionally uploaded a photograph of the stays of her personal espresso grounds. ChatGPT's interpretation was much more damning for the husband: it claimed he was already having an affair with this different lady, and that she was making an attempt to destroy the spouse's household.

ChatGPT might need some ominous predictions about this one

The girl then did what every other regular particular person would do – she filed for divorce with out telling her husband.

Talking on the Greek morning present To Proino, the husband mentioned that the spouse was usually into fashionable issues and believed getting ChatGPT to learn the espresso grounds could be enjoyable.

"I laughed it off as nonsense," he mentioned. "However she did not. She informed me to depart, knowledgeable our children in regards to the divorce, and the subsequent factor I knew, I used to be getting a name from her lawyer."

The person refused to conform to a mutual separation, naturally, so he was served with divorce papers three days later. His lawyer is pushing the seemingly apparent argument that claims made by an AI haven't any authorized standing, particularly in terms of studying tea leaves.

Plainly the girl has a penchant for believing mystical steering. "Just a few years in the past, she visited an astrologer and it took an entire 12 months for her to simply accept that none of it was actual," the husband mentioned.

Not solely is the entire scenario a tragic indictment of how a lot religion some individuals put in AI (and tasseography), however it's additionally been identified that readings historically have a look at the froth patterns, the swirl, and the saucer – not simply the leftover espresso grounds.