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In a plot twist worthy of a modern Greek tragedy (or maybe just a very weird rom-com), a woman in Greece has filed for divorce, not after catching her husband cheating, but after ChatGPT told her he might be... by reading their coffee cups.
Yes, you read that right. In what’s believed to be Greece’s first-ever divorce case sparked by artificial intelligence, the woman used ChatGPT to "read" her Greek coffee cup grounds, a tradition usually reserved for fortune tellers, and the bot allegedly saw trouble brewing.
According to the woman, the AI revealed that her husband was romantically involved with a young woman whose name begins with “E.” Even worse, the virtual reading claimed this mystery woman was ready to “close the house,” Greek slang for tearing a family apart.
Taking the AI’s digital divination to heart, the woman promptly kicked her husband out of the house and filed for divorce, leaving him stunned, confused, and still trying to figure out how his morning coffee ended his marriage.
“She’s always been into trends,” the husband told ANT1. “This time it was AI fortune-telling. She asked me to take pictures of our cups and feed them to ChatGPT for a laugh. Next thing I know, I’m accused of cheating and served with divorce papers.”
The husband insists there’s no “E” in his life, other than maybe espresso, and calls the whole thing “nonsense.” But his wife wasn’t joking. According to him, she even informed their children they were divorcing… based on the coffee cup prediction.
Her lawyer appears equally committed. The husband's attorney, Phoebus Smrungaris, called the situation “surreal,” warning that AI “can’t replace common sense, or courtroom evidence.”
“My client is now considering a custody suit,” Smrungaris said. “We can’t allow child-rearing decisions to be based on what a chatbot sees in spilled coffee.”
*Source: Protothema.gr
