- A Greek couple thought it would be fun to use chatgpt as a fortune division and make it “read” coffee grounds in their cups
- Chatgpt said that the husband was cheating with someone whose name begins with E
- The wife is now deposited in divorce on the response to the mug of the AI
A woman in Greece divorce from her husband after Chatgpt played the Disator of Gonnest Adventure and said that her husband was cheating on her. According to a report by the Greek City Times, the couple asked the IA chatbot to look at a photo of the terrain left in the cup of her husband’s Greek coffee and to practice cup, ancient art of dividing current secrets or future destinies based on the patterns left in tea leaves or coffee.
After looking at the residues at the bottom of their cups, Chatgpt had scandalously specific things to say. According to the report, AI claimed to see that the husband secretly fantasizes about a woman whose name started with an “e” and was intended to start a connection with her. In the event that it was not enough, the response of Chatgpt to the own woman’s cup was to claim that the case had already started.
Some people take fortune seriously, but generally only humans practicing divination. But what the husband saw as a funny and original moment, his wife considered a serious and precise description of reality. She told her husband to leave, her children told that she ended her marriage and served her legal papers three days later.
Oracular
As a legal question, it is difficult to say how a judge will see this. There is no preceding real to quote an “oracle robot” as proof of infidelity in a court anywhere (although there is one to declare that a house is haunted before selling it in New York state). But what is fascinating is not as much the legality as what he says of culture.
The cup is not a festival of novelty; He has thousands of years and practiced through coffee and Turkey tea consumption crops in China and beyond. The idea that symbols and whirlpools in a cup could reveal your spell is a perfect example of how people see stories in randomness, whether it is a constellation or a coffee residue.
That some people want to outsource mystical rituals to AI feels almost predetermined. This reported Greek marital conflict is undoubtedly a good reason not to do it, or at least not to call it wisdom. And it’s not like Chatgpt really knew how to read coffee grounds. He was not trained on the cup. What he can do is make educated assumptions according to the models he sees in an image and what people have said about similar forms or symbols on the Internet. In other words, inventing things in a convincing tone, just like a human.
It turns out that a convincing tone is everything you need for some people. And it’s not like it was the first instance. Reading the Tarot card with Chatgpt was an early demonstration of the AI flexible in its activities. The same goes for the manufacture of astrology graphics and reading palm trees. But if you stop treating it as entertainment and as a real psychic response, it can cause real emotional damage.
Again, if your spouse is willing to believe an AI chatbot claiming psychic powers on your own contradictions, the problem may not concern technology. So go ahead and ask Chatgpt to read your coffee grounds if you want to laugh. But perhaps does not act as if you were in a mashup of Black mirror encounter My big Greek Wedding Gras And get out of the door. Sometimes your coffee is just coffee. And the whirlwind at the bottom of the cup is not the ghost of a digital cassand.
