- A Greek couple thought it would be fun to use chatgpt as a predictor and make it “read” coffee grounds in their cups
- Chatgpt claimed the man is cheating with someone whose name starts with e
- Kona now submits divorce over Ai Tasseography -Svantet
A woman in Greece stands out from her husband after Chatgpt played a predictor and claimed her husband is cheating on her. According to a Greek City Times report, the couple asked the AI -Chatbot to look at a photo of the reasons left behind in her husband’s cup of Greek coffee and practice Tasseography, the old art to divide current secrets or future fates based on patterns left in tea leaves or coffee.
After looking at the leftovers at the bottom of their cups, chatgpt had some shockingly specific things to say. According to the report, AI claimed to see that the man secretly fantasized about a woman whose name started with an “e” and was decided to begin an affair with her. In the event that that was not enough, Chatgpt’s answer to the woman’s own cup was to claim that the affair had already started.
Some people take wealth narrative seriously, but usually only from people who practice divination. But what the man saw as a quirky, funny moment, saw his wife as a serious and accurate description of reality. She asked her husband to leave, announced her children that she was ending her marriage and serving him with legal papers three days later.
Oracular AI
As a legal case, it’s hard to say how a judge will see this. There is no real precedent to quote a “robot oracle” as proof of adultery in a court everywhere (though there is one to declare a house is haunted before selling it in New York State). But what is fascinating is not the legals as much as what it says about culture.
Tasseography is not a new party trick; It is thousands of years old and practiced across coffee and tea drinks from Turkey to China and beyond. The idea that symbols and swirls in a cup could reveal your fate is a perfect example of how people see stories of chance, whether it is a constellation or coffee party.
That some people want to outsource mysterious rituals to AI feels almost predetermined. This reported Greek marital struggle is undoubtedly a good reason not to do so, or at least not to call it wisdom. And it’s not like chatgpt actually knows how to read coffee grounds. It was not trained in Tasseography. What it can do is make educated guesses based on the patterns it sees in a picture and what people have said about similar forms or symbols on the internet. In other words, to make things up in a compelling tone, just as a human being would.
It turns out that a compelling tone is all it takes for some people. And it’s not like this is the first instance. Tarot card reading with Chatgpt was an early demonstration of how flexible AI could be in its activities. The same goes for making astrology maps and hand reading. But if you stop treating it as entertainment and as a real mental answer, it can cause real emotional harm.
Then again, if your spouse is willing to believe that an AI -Chatbot that claims mental powers over your own contradictions, the question may not be about the technology. So go ahead and ask chatgpt to read your coffee grounds if you want to laugh. But maybe you shouldn’t act like you’re in a mashup of Black mirror meet My great fat Greek wedding and ran out the door. Sometimes your coffee is just coffee. And the vertebra at the bottom of the cup is not the ghost of a digital cassandra.
