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


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...

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. 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. Not only is the whole situation a sad indictment of how much faith some people put in AI (and tasseography), but it's also been pointed out that readings traditionally look at the foam patterns, the swirl, and the saucer – not just the leftover coffee grounds.

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