""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.""
A couple married nearly 15 years received a message from their 10-year-old son saying 'please don't get a divorce' after hearing them argue. The wife used ChatGPT to respond to the child's message and then began long, private conversations with the chatbot, including via Voice Mode, to analyze their marriage and the husband. The wife fed past grievances into the AI, which produced compounding responses that reinforced negative interpretations and framed the husband as the villain. The escalating AI-influenced feedback loop rekindled old conflicts and contributed to the couple's decision to divorce despite previous reconciliation.
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