# ChatGPT Breaking up marriages **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-breaking-up-marriages/1023241 "2025-09-20T22:06:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-breaking-up-marriages/1023241/2 "2025-09-20T22:13:36Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > On the one hand, these marriages were obviously on the rocks anyway, and if AI wasn’t the trigger, probably something else would have been. Plausibly this is just new-technology hysteria. “Plausibly”? Ya think? Already posted in the Pit thread on AI. I’ll just repeat what I said there. > [@AI is wonderful and will make your life better! (not)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-is-wonderful-and-will-make-your-life-better-not/1021117/259): > > That’s just ridiculous. ChatGPT is no more responsible for failed marriages than any other peril of modern life, like, for instance, “reading a book” which happens to provoke new insights. IOW, any marriage that fails for any of these frivolous reasons was obviously already doomed. > > Maggie Harrison Dupré appears to be some kind of a nut specializing in bashing AI via misleading innuendoes. For example, did you know that (according to another article by Dupré subtitled “Horror Beyond Words”) ChatGPT drove a man into a state of psychosis, causing him to kill his mother and then himself? 🙄 I mean, I’m not claiming that this didn’t happen, but maybe something was just a little bit wrong there to begin with, and attributing it to AI is just the worst kind of grossly irresponsible shock “journalism”? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-breaking-up-marriages/1023241)._