Woman says husband flooded her with pages of ChatGPT outputs defending his view of their marriage instead of talking; couple now divorcing
A woman told Futurism that after her marriage of about a decade hit a rough patch earlier in 2025, her husband began using ChatGPT to obsessively analyse his mental health and their marriage and started sending her "pages and pages" of ChatGPT-generated text. In her view the outputs were defences of his perspective that painted a biased picture of their union and disputed what she told him, and he shared them in place of his own feelings; she says his prompts were leading and that he would not accept that this skewed the answers. She asked him to stop sending ChatGPT material and to talk to her in his own words. She says the deeper he was drawn into ChatGPT, the less he engaged outside it, and that the outputs left no way to communicate. The couple are in an acrimonious divorce and custody battle. The account is hers; Futurism does not quote the outputs or report the husband's view.
- AI system
- ChatGPT (reported)
- Occurred
- 2025
- Reported
- 18 September 2025
- Event location
- Unknown
- What the AI did
- Communicated with the person · Made a claim about the person
- Reported harm
- Relationship DisruptionPsychological Distress
- Whose AI use
- Someone else’s AI use
- Setting
- Relationships
- Evidence
- AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
- 4 claims: 4 reported. 4 open questions
- People reported harmed
- 1 person
AI system as recorded: ChatGPT (OpenAI), which the woman says her husband used to analyse his mental health and their marriage and whose long outputs he sent to her
What Happened
The crisis. In a September 2025 Futurism feature on ChatGPT and marriages, a woman said her relationship of about a decade hit a rough patch earlier in 2025, and that as they tried to work through it her husband began using ChatGPT to obsessively analyse his mental health and their marriage.
The outputs. She says she then received "pages and pages" of ChatGPT-generated text that, in her view, painted a deeply biased picture of their union and read more like defences of his perspective than reflection, disputing the things she told him. She says he shared these outputs instead of his own feelings, that his questions to the chatbot were leading and did not present an accurate picture, and that he would not accept this. She told him to stop sending ChatGPT material and to give her his perspective in his own words.
The effect. She says the deeper he was drawn into ChatGPT, the less he engaged in a meaningful way outside it, and that a tool able to produce thirty pages in a moment 'floods the zone' so that there was no way to communicate. The couple are in an acrimonious divorce and custody battle. The account is hers alone: Futurism does not quote the outputs, give the husband's view or say how much the outputs contributed to the separation.
Reported harm
The woman says her husband's long ChatGPT outputs replaced real communication during their marriage crisis and left 'no way to communicate'; the couple are in an acrimonious divorce and custody battle.
How Harm Occurred
According to the woman, her husband put leading questions about their marriage to ChatGPT and sent her its long outputs defending his view, which displaced direct communication between them during the crisis that ended in divorce.
Outcome
OngoingFuturism reports that the couple are in an acrimonious divorce and custody battle. OpenAI gave Futurism a general statement about responding with care in sensitive moments.
What remains unknown
- What the ChatGPT outputs said; none are quoted.
- The husband's account.
- Where the couple live and the outcome of the divorce and custody case.
- How far the outputs, as opposed to other marital difficulties, contributed to the separation.
What the evidence supports
AI involvement: reported. The woman says her husband sent her long ChatGPT-generated outputs ('pages and pages') analysing their marriage and disputing what she told him, so that she received ChatGPT's text in place of his own words; she describes the outputs as biased claims about their union. She connects this to the breakdown of communication during the crisis that ended in divorce. The outputs are not quoted and the account is hers.
4 claims: 4 reported. What the statuses mean
Reported The woman says that after their relationship hit a rough patch earlier in 2025, her husband began using ChatGPT to obsessively analyse his mental health and their marriage.
Causal attribution. The woman's account; the husband's view is not reported.
- futurism.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'Their relationship hit a rough patch earlier this year, she explained. As they tried to work through it, her husband started using ChatGPT to obsessively analyze his mental health and their marriage.'
Reported She says he sent her pages of ChatGPT-generated text that, in her view, painted a biased picture of their union, disputed what she told him and stood in for his own feelings.
Causal attribution. Her characterisation of the outputs; the outputs are not quoted.
- futurism.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'Soon, she was receiving “pages and pages” of AI-generated screeds that, in her view, painted a deeply biased view of their decade-long union'; 'He just shares these [outputs] that ChatGPT writes about his thoughts or feelings and how they’re right.'; 'all about disproving the things I would tell him'
Reported She says his prompts were leading, she asked him to stop sending ChatGPT material, and the more he was drawn into ChatGPT the less he engaged outside it.
Causal attribution. The woman's account.
- futurism.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'The deeper he was drawn into ChatGPT, she told us, the less he seemed to want to engage in a meaningful way outside of the chatbot.'; 'Finally, I told him, ‘listen. Don’t f*cking send me any more ChatGPT stuff.’'; 'was not open to my perspective that his questions were leading, or that he was not presenting an accurate picture, so it’s not giving him accurate answers'
Reported The couple are in an acrimonious divorce and custody battle, and she says the outputs left no way to communicate.
Causal attribution. Futurism's report of the divorce and the woman's assessment; the article does not say the outputs caused the divorce.
- futurism.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'Today, the couple is in the thick of an acrimonious divorce and custody battle.'; 'it floods the zone,” said the woman. “There is no way to communicate.”'
Sources
1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.
- Futurism, 18 September 2025: ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners(opens in new tab)
s1 · futurism.com · News report · English · Inspected · 18 September 2025 · Primary
How the sources were read, and where the events happened
Read in English on 2026-11-01 by the research agent (an AI); no translation was needed. Futurism feature of 18 September 2025 by Maggie Harrison Dupré; HTTP 200. Applies to s1.
Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.
Futurism keeps the couple anonymous and does not say where they live or where the divorce is proceeding; no country is recorded.
Reviewed for publication 2026-11-01: Published as a core case (communicated_with, with made_claim_about): the woman says her husband sent her long ChatGPT-generated outputs about their marriage in place of his own words during a 2025 marital crisis, which she connects to the collapse of communication before their divorce. All claims are attributed to her account.
People described
A woman in a marriage of about a decade whose husband sent her long ChatGPT-generated outputs about their relationship during a marital crisis
People reported harmed in this case
1 person
0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed
One person: the woman who received the outputs. The husband (the ChatGPT user) is not described as harmed and is not counted; the children in the custody dispute are not described and are not counted.
Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.
Cite this case
Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.
APA
NOPE. (2026). Woman says husband flooded her with pages of ChatGPT outputs defending his view of their marriage instead of talking; couple now divorcing. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-woman-says-husband-flooded-her-with-pages-of-chatgpt-outputs-defending-his-view-as-their-marriage-collapsed
BibTeX
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title = {Woman says husband flooded her with pages of ChatGPT outputs defending his view of their marriage instead of talking; couple now divorcing},
author = {NOPE},
year = {2026},
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url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-woman-says-husband-flooded-her-with-pages-of-chatgpt-outputs-defending-his-view-as-their-marriage-collapsed}
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