A woman in Greece has reportedly filed for divorce after Chatgpt, an AI-powered chatbot, allegedly suggested her husband was cheating on her based on an image of coffee grounds at the bottom of his cup.

Local media reports say that the woman, who has not been publicly identified, uploaded a photo of the bottom of her husband’s coffee cup to Chatgpt and asked the AI tool to analyse the patterns.

This appears to be a very old method of fortune-telling called tasseography, which usually entails analysing coffee sediment or tea leaves.

The chatbot allegedly responded with a claim that her husband was either contemplating or already involved in an affair with a woman whose name began with the letter “E.”

The woman, married for 12 years and a mother of two, reportedly took the AI-generated reading seriously and asked her husband to leave and informed their children of an impending divorce before serving him with official papers just days later.

The husband, who spoke on the morning television show To Proino, said his wife had a history of relying on supernatural beliefs.

‘A few years ago, she visited an astrologer and it took her a whole year to accept that none of it was real,’ he told the morning show.

He added that at first he had laughed off the Chatgpt claim, thinking it was just a phase, but was later contacted by a lawyer who served him with divorce papers just three days later.

“I laughed it off as nonsense 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 realised this wasn’t just a phase.”

The publication claims that he refused to consent to a mutual separation and he is pushing back against his wife’s divorce attempts, with his lawyer arguing that the claims made by ChatGPT have no legal standing and that he is ‘innocent until proven otherwise.’