ChatGPT 'prophecy' destroys marriage – high-profile divorce in Greece

A woman in Greece filed for divorce after learning that her husband was cheating on her by reading coffee grounds from a coffee cup, using an artificial intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT, NDTV reported.

The woman, who had been married for 12 years and had two children, used a modern version of the traditional practice of tasseography — reading coffee grounds — to upload a photo of her husband's coffee cup to ChatGPT. The chatbot assumed that her husband was having an affair with a young woman whose name began with the letter "E" and that the affair was threatening to destroy their family.

While her husband laughed off the allegations, his wife took them seriously, kicked him out of the house and told her children she was divorcing. Three days later, the man was served with official divorce papers.

Her husband dismissed the allegations as baseless, calling his wife's hobby a "viral trend":

"I laughed it off as nonsense. But she took it seriously. She asked me to leave, told our children we were getting a divorce, and then my lawyer called me. That's when I realized it wasn't just a phase."

The man said his wife had previously trusted the astrologer's advice, and had been trying to break it off for a year.

Now her lawyer has explained that the coffee cup prediction generated by AI cannot be accepted as legal evidence of adultery.

"She is innocent until proven guilty," the lawyer said.

Lawyers have argued that such data obtained through artificial intelligence has no legal force. The incident has sparked a wide-ranging debate about the impact of AI technologies on privacy and its limits.

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