- This lady sounds like a snake oil salesman’s dream customer.
ChatGPT and other AI bots have gotten very versatile in many tasks. They can carry conversations, write a novel’s worth of text, and generate pictures in seconds.
They can also ruin your marriage with bogus fortunetelling.
This is the bizarre situation in which a Greek man recently found himself. He was quite confused when his furious wife, without warning, suddenly served him with divorce papers.
It turned out that the woman had asked ChatGPT to interpret the coffee grounds from his husband’s beverage. The AI claimed that the man is having an affair.
Without ever asking her husband if it was true, the enraged mother of two filed for divorce and told her husband to get out of their house. He was obviously quite confused and through the whole thing was some kind of prank — until he got the divorce papers.
Now, the two are heading toward a looming court battle. According to the husband’s lawyers, ChatGPT’s fortunetelling is not legally acceptable evidence of any wrongdoing on his part.
With all that said, we couldn’t find any confirmation of whether the man was actually cheating with his wife. That’ll be left for the divorce court to decide, we suppose.
Just a Bit of Fun
The husband (or soon-to-be-ex-husband) appeared recently on the Greek morning show To Proino to share his story. It quickly went viral due to its bizarre nature.
According to the man, there was no indication that anything was wrong with the couple’s marriage. They had been married for 12 years, had two children, and everything was seemingly a-OK.
The only mentionable issue they’d had was the wife’s fascination with divination and the supernatural, which went a bit too far.
“She’s often into trendy things … A few years ago, she visited an astrologer, and it took a whole year for her to accept that none of it was real,” the husband said, according to Greek City Times.
Yet, the woman eventually admitted that the stars had no control over her life. But there are other ways to tell your fortune — such as tasseography, or divination by reading tea leaves or coffee grounds.
The husband said that one day, after making both of them a cup of Greek coffee, the wife thought it would be fun to have ChatGPT read their fortune from the grounds left in the cup. So, she took photos of the cups and uploaded them for ChatGPT to interpret.
Then all hell broke loose.
Dark Omens
Now, we’re pretty certain that no matter how advanced an AI is, it can’t tell the future from coffee grounds (or anything else for that matter). The wife, however, took ChatGPT’s interpretation seriously — and she didn’t like it one bit.
According to the chatbot, the husband’s coffee grounds revealed without a shred of doubt that he fantasized about another woman. That woman, the AI claimed, had a name that started with “E” and she was destined to end up in a relationship with the husband.
Meanwhile, the wife’s coffee cup told the AI that the man wasn’t unfaithful only in his thoughts. ChatGPT stated that her husband was already cheating on her, and the mysterious “E” was hell-bent on destroying their marriage.
“I laughed it off as nonsense, but she took it seriously,” the husband said.
Not Just a Phase
The wife immediately told the husband to get out of the house, he alleged. She also informed their children that they were getting divorced.
Figuring she was just going through something, the man decided to give his wife some space. However, three days later, he got a call from a lawyer — and divorce papers in the mail.
“That’s when I realized this wasn’t just a phase,” he said.
And that’s where our story ends for now. The couple is headed for the divorce court, and we can bet the judge is in for one heck of a hearing.
Meanwhile, the man’s lawyer has emphasized that ChatGPT’s divinations have no legal merit and do not constitute acceptable evidence for the divorce court. He also added that the man is “innocent until proven otherwise.”
Which is, admittedly, kind of a weird thing to say publicly unless there’s a chance the man is proven guilty of adultery. Was ChatGPT on to something after all?
Not, according to “professionals.” Several Greek fortunetellers, psychics, and other supposed diviners have said there’s more to tasseography than just reading the coffee grounds.
You apparently also have to take into account any leftover foam and the coffee saucer. ChatGPT still has a long way to go.