Splitting up a marriage is never an easy decision and one woman from South London thought she had come across the perfect way to to determine what to do next.
'Sarah' had been having an affair for six months with a man she had met online and made the controversial step of using AI to decide whether or not she should divorce her spouse.
The 37-year-old, who works in the tech sector, used Chat:GPT - the AI trend sweeping the world - to help her understand why she had embarked on the affair with the lover she had met on IllicitEncounters.com.
Between Christmas and New Year, the problems in her marriage - including constant arguing - came to a head, and she knew she needed to decide whether to try and fix things at home - or leave her husband of five years for her lover.
Sarah revealed she asked the AI app to respond with her ideal 'fairytale' end to the affair and what she should do. And she revealed the response left her "shaking".
Discussing her decision to turn to tech to make the decision for her, Sarah said: "I essentially asked the app to write me a story based on my current situation, and what the person in the story should do in a failing marriage while experiencing the excitement of the affair I've been having.
"What's fascinating was how it picked up so well on my dilemma and even considered my own happiness. The end of the story told me I should put my happiness first and leave my husband, which I’ve now done.
"For the normal person using Chat:GPT for the first time, it will be an eery experience with the sort of output it is capable of."
Sarah, who is now temporarily living with her lover, added: "It gave me the push I needed to make the jump and leave a relationship that had been in the doldrums for a long time.
"It’s certainly unorthodox, and not something I’d insist other women in similar situations to try. It was more of a case that I’d been around this technology and it worked for me.”
A spokesperson at Illicitencounters.com, said: "We get hundreds of stories every month from members who lives have been changed through reaping the benefits of meeting someone else in their life. Sarah’s story is a first, but also one we really wanted to share and we’re delighted she was happy to share it."
Since November, Chat:GPT has become a writing-shortcut phenomenon as users experiment with it to write poems, songs, work emails and every else. The apps impressive skills has prompted universities to develop protocols to stop students using it to cheat, whilst online daters have used it to deliver romantic lines to potential dates.
