ChatGPT and Coffee – The Weird Side of the Internet

ChatGPT and Coffee – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

What the hell is this “reading the coffee cup” nonsense? Yeah, apparently it’s a thing to have ChatGPT to “read” a photo of their coffee grounds. ChatGPT then pretends it’s a psychic, and tells you about yourself. And ChatGPT is a perfectly acceptable way to do this, I think. For once, an app that tells you what it thinks you want to hear might actually be god for something. So you feed it a picture of your brew, and it makes shit up that you can choose to believe if you want to. They honestly should put that sentence in their sales kit.

Thing about believing in random nonsense is that it’s going to cause you to engage in random nonsense, and you might get hurt. A Greek woman, who has come to us nameless because of the shame of all this, followed a social media trend and had pictures of her and her husband’s coffees “read” by ChatGPT in a way similar to divining tea leaves, or tasseography. Unfortunately, the app told her that her husband was cheating on her.

She did what any woman in her place would do: she divorced her husband.

Okay, so there was definitely something going on behind the scenes. If we’re going to go ahead and believe that ChatGPT should be on the shelves next to crystals and herbs, surely we have to double-check, right? She is, reportedly, sensitive to forms of divination. Must be, really.

I feel bad for her husband, I really do. He’s pretty much on the hook for his own bullshit, but also AI’s bullshit too. So yes, I feel bad, mainly because I’ve got the guy pegged as long-suffering. But he could be just as weird, who knows. Maybe he drinks like crazy and she “read” the first cup of coffee he’d had in a month.

Or maybe he collects Funko Pops of 70s TV stars.

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