Woman Files For Divorce After ChatGPT Accuses Husband Of Cheating
A woman, married for 12 years, has decided to end her marriage after an unusual incident involving ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence chatbot.
The unnamed mother of two reportedly turned to ChatGPT to analyse the remnants at the bottom of her husband’s coffee cup — a method traditionally known as tasseography, which interprets patterns in coffee grounds, tea leaves, or wine sediments to predict the future.
According to a Greek publication cited by Daily Mail, the unnamed woman uploaded a photo of the coffee cup’s dregs to ChatGPT, asking the AI for a reading.
To her surprise, ChatGPT allegedly suggested that her husband was thinking of starting an extramarital affair with a woman whose name began with the letter “E.”
The AI further indicated that the husband was already cheating and that the other woman intended to destroy their marriage.
The husband, who spoke on a Greek morning TV show called To Proino, said this was not the first time his wife had been influenced by supernatural beliefs, recalling how “a few years ago, she visited an astrologer and it took her a whole year to accept that none of it was real.”
However, this time, the AI’s ‘fortune-telling’ seemed to have a profound impact. He said his wife asked him to leave, told their children they were getting divorced, and soon after, he was served with divorce papers.
“I laughed it off as nonsense, but she took it seriously,” the husband said. “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.”
Despite his refusal to consent to a mutual separation, the legal process moved quickly. The husband’s lawyer has contested the validity of ChatGPT’s claims, arguing that the AI has no legal authority and that his client remains innocent until proven guilty.
The bizarre story has caught the attention of many online, with Reddit users debating the role of AI in such personal matters.
Some joked that AI might be taking over jobs traditionally held by psychics. “They are taking out psychic jobs!” one person wrote, to which another replied with a pun: “To be fair, they saw this coming.”
Others cautioned that despite its advances, ChatGPT can produce flawed or misleading results.
One user shared an example, “I was running a bunch of things through ChatGPT to get some quick examples set up for a statistics course and it insisted that the word ‘extraterrestrial’ has 15 letters, of which four of them were E’s,” they said. “No matter how I worded the question it insisted both of these things. Now I can’t recreate that, which is even more confusing.”
On a more serious note, some observers expressed concern about the potential harm AI chatbots could cause to vulnerable people who might struggle to distinguish between reality and fiction.
“I genuinely feel like we’re gonna see a huge wave of people for whom LLM (Large Language Model) tools have just utterly annihilated their ability to comprehend reality,” one wrote. “I’d say it’s a technology that needs safeguards but that ship sailed years ago.”
Titilope Adako is a talented and intrepid journalist, dedicated to shedding light on the untold stories of Osun State and Nigeria. Through incisive reporting, she tackles a broad spectrum of topics, from politics and social justice to culture and entertainment, with a commitment to accuracy, empathy, and inspiring positive change.
