Woman files for divorce after ChatGPT sees husband’s affair in coffee grounds

A mother of two has filed for divorce from her husband of 12 years after ChatGPT told her he was having an affair with a younger woman, based on a "reading" of his Greek coffee cup.

The woman in Greece quite literally found grounds for divorce at the bottom of her husband’s coffee cup. After uploading photos of their coffee cups to the chatbot, she was told that the father of her children was cheating on her.

To make matters worse, the other woman was reportedly “determined” to tear their family apart, according to Greek media. So the wife took matters into her own hands and told her husband she wanted out.

Recounting the incident on the Greek morning show To Proino, the husband described his wife as both superstitious and “into trendy things,” explaining the mix of new technology and the old tradition of tasseography.

Tasseography is the practice of fortune-telling and divination using tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediment.

“One day, she made us Greek coffee and thought it would be fun to take pictures of the cups and have ChatGPT ‘read’ them,” the husband was quoted as saying by the Greek City Times.

According to ChatGPT, the husband's cup revealed a mysterious woman with the initial “E” whom he was supposedly fantasizing about. While the chatbot stopped short of claiming he was already having an affair, it said he was “destined” to start a relationship with her.

Meanwhile, the wife’s cup reading claimed the affair had already begun – and that the other woman was out to destroy their home. The wife immediately demanded a divorce, and the husband was formally served papers just three days later.

“I laughed it off as nonsense,” the husband said. “But she took it seriously. She asked me to leave, told our kids we were getting divorced, and then I got a call from a lawyer. That’s when I realized this wasn’t just a phase.”

According to the husband’s lawyer, claims made by AI chatbots have no legal standing and that his client was “innocent until proven otherwise.”