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

WTF?! You shouldn't trust generative AI to come up with the right answers all the time – even the tools' own disclaimers warn to check their responses for factual accuracy – and they're certainly not renowned for their ability to read tea leaves. But one woman put so much faith in ChatGPT's divination skills that she divorced her husband of 12 years after it interpreted the remains of his coffee mug as signs of infidelity.

Rather than using ChatGPT's image skills to create Studio Ghibli-style pictures, a Greek woman decided to experiment with the trend of AI tasseography – a form of divination that interprets shapes left by tea leaves (or sometimes coffee grounds or wine sediment) after a cup is drunk.

She uploaded a photo of her husband's Greek coffee grounds and asked the AI to interpret them. The chatbot's interpretation was that the husband was ...