Woman Files for Divorce After ChatGPT Suggests Husband Cheated
Woman Files for Divorce After ChatGPT Suggests Husband Cheated
A mother of two, whose identity remains undisclosed, reportedly took ChatGPT’s so-called fortune-telling abilities to heart after it claimed her husband had been unfaithful during a coffee break with a colleague.
According to a Greek outlet cited by Daily Mail, the woman—married for 12 years—asked the AI chatbot to analyse the coffee cup stains left by her husband and provide a ‘reading’ of the situation.
As odd as it sounds, reading the dregs at the bottom of a cup is a fortune-telling method known as tasseography or tasseomancy.
It involves interpreting patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments to discern the future, and is usually done by those who claim to be fortune tellers – not ChatGPT.
But this woman’s decision to test the divine with the digital led to a spectacular breakdown in her marriage after ChatGPT allegedly suggested her husband was having an affair.
Greek City Times reported that she uploaded a photograph of the bottom of her husband’s coffee cup, which prompted a rather unexpected response for both parties.
The husband, who reportedly appeared on Greek morning show To Proino to talk about his side of the story, said it wasn’t the first time his wife let herself be guided by the supernatural.
“A few years ago, she visited an astrologer and it took her a whole year to accept that none of it was real,” he told the morning show.
However, the reading she received from ChatGPT appeared to have influenced her entirely.
After she uploaded photos of her and her husband’s coffee cups into the AI chatbot, she was allegedly told that her partner was thinking about starting an extramarital affair with a woman whose name began with the letter E.
ChatGPT allegedly went even further with the reading and apparently interpreted the coffee grounds to suggest that he was already cheating on her and the ‘other woman’ had plans to tear their marriage apart.
The husband said, “I laughed it off as nonsense, but she took it seriously.She asked me to leave, told our kids we were getting divorced, and then I got a call from a lawyer. That’s when I realised this wasn’t just a phase.”
According to the publication, he refused to agree to a mutual separation, but only three days later, he was formally served with divorce papers
