In a bizarre mix of ancient superstition and modern artificial intelligence, a Greek woman has reportedly filed for divorce after ChatGPT “read” her husband’s coffee cup — and claimed he was cheating.
The woman, who had been married for 12 years and shares two children with her husband, used a trending online method where AI is asked to interpret images of coffee cup grounds — a digital twist on the traditional Greek practice of tasseography.
According to reports, she snapped a photo of her husband’s Greek coffee cup and asked ChatGPT to analyze the grounds. The AI’s unexpected “reading”? That her husband was secretly involved with a younger woman whose name began with the letter “E,” and that the mystery woman was trying to break up their family.
Instead of brushing it off, the woman took the reading to heart and immediately initiated divorce proceedings.
The stunned husband recounted the situation during an appearance on the Greek morning show To Proino.
“She’s into trendy things,” he explained. “One day, she made us Greek coffee and thought it would be fun to take pictures of the cups and have ChatGPT ‘read’ them.”
But things escalated quickly. According to the AI-generated reading, not only was he fantasizing about another woman, but that woman was actively trying to destroy their marriage.
“I laughed it off as nonsense,” he said. “But she didn’t. She asked me to leave, told our kids we were getting divorced, and next thing I knew, I was getting a call from her lawyer.”
When he refused to agree to a mutual separation, formal divorce papers followed just three days later.
The man said this wasn’t the first time his wife had leaned into unconventional beliefs. “A few years ago, she went to an astrologer, and it took a year for her to accept none of it was real.”
His lawyer is now fighting the divorce, stating that AI-generated claims have no legal standing. “He is innocent until proven otherwise,” the lawyer said.
Traditional coffee readers also chimed in, noting that authentic tasseography isn’t as simple as uploading a photo. It involves a skilled interpretation of not just the coffee grounds, but also the foam and even the saucer.
Still, for this marriage, it seems AI’s fortune-telling left grounds for separation — literally.
