A husband and wife, together nearly 15 years, had reached a breaking point. And in the middle of their latest fight, they received a heartbreaking text.
"Our son heard us arguing," the husband told Futurism. "He's 10, and he sent us a message from his phone saying, 'please don't get a divorce.'"
What his wife did next, the man told us, unsettled him.
"She took his message, and asked ChatGPT to respond," he recounted. "This was her immediate reaction to our 10-year-old being concerned about us in that moment."
The couple is now divorcing. Like most marriages, the husband conceded, theirs was imperfect. But they'd been able to overcome their difficulties in the past, and as of just a few months ago, he felt they were in a good, stable place.
"We've been together for just under 15 years, total. Two kids," he explained. "We've had ups and downs like any relationship, and in 2023, we almost split. But we ended up reconciling, and we had, I thought, two very good years. Very close years."
"And then," he sighed, "the whole ChatGPT thing happened."
Over this past summer, arguments they'd worked together to resolve years ago came suddenly — and ferociously — roaring back. What he eventually realized was that his wife had started using OpenAI's chatbot to analyze him and their marriage, holding "long, drawn-out conversations" over text and the chatbot's phone-like Voice Mode feature.
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