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Your Next Psychic Reading Might Secretly Come From a Clanker

The word salad generator is tapped into the great beyond.

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AI is coming for your job. No career is safe. Entry-level jobs are disappearing, coders are thinking about burning their resumes and moving into a secluded shack in the woods, and now even tarot card readers are apparently staring down the barrel of ChatGPT. According to research, appropriately dug up by Study Finds, some tarot practitioners are now feeding their card pulls into ChatGPT and asking the machine for its interpretation.

Hm. This raises a lot of questions that I’ll get to in a bit, but first, the details of the study for some background.

The study, which you can find here, presented at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, says that since lots of people are into some kind of mystic prognostication, like astrology or tarot readings, once AI started getting big, it’s marketing making us all think it’s inevitable, unavoidable, a lot of people who were into fortune-telling stuff naturally started drifting to AI to satisfy their fortune-telling needs.

Researchers interviewed 12 tarot readers from........

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