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Psychics challenge AI readings over empathy and connection
Human psychics say automated readings miss the empathy and connection they see as essential to divination. Urban Mystic, a chatbot with an AI-created profile image showing a smiling woman among palm trees, told the writer they would soon marry, had a pink aura and might have been an herbalist in a past life.
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What to know
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Human practitioners argue that AI-generated divination lacks empathy and connection.
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Urban Mystic offered the writer a marriage prediction and claims about an aura and a possible past life.
Why it matters
The disagreement highlights practitioners’ concerns about empathy and human connection in AI-generated divination.
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